Army Apprentices College


The Army Apprentices College was a college system in the United Kingdom that offered military training, education and common core skills, leadership and adventurous training, character development and trade training.

Name changes

On 28 February 1924, a Boys' Technical School was opened by the War Office. Five years later in 1929 it was renamed Army Technical School. Several more such schools were opened in the 1930s. In 1947, they were renamed as Army Apprentices Schools. The schools were finally renamed as the Army Apprentices Colleges in 1966, though Arborfield's Army Apprentices College was known as Princess Marina College between 1981 and 1995.

List of schools/colleges

The following locations are listed on the Army Apprentice National Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum :