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Two boarding schools were provided for children of serving or deceased Army officers soldiers. These were the '''Royal Hibernian Military School''' in Dublin, which was founded in 1769 for children and orphans of soldiers in the Irish establishment and the '''Royal Military Asylum for Children of Soldiers of the Regular Army''', which opened at Chelsea in 1803. For the latter school, girls were admitted up to 1845, with reducing numbers from 1836.<ref>[http://www.richardgilbert.ca/achart/public_html/articles/york/schoolmasters.htm "Corps of Army Schoolmasters"] Duke of York's Royal Military School richardgilbert.ca/achart .</ref>
In 1892 the Royal Military Asylum for Children of Soldiers of the Regular Army was renamed the '''Duke of York's Royal Military School''' and moved to Dover in 1909. In 1922 the Royal Hibernian School moved to Shorncliffe and merged with the Duke of York's School in 1924.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_York's_Royal_Military_School Duke of York's Royal Military School] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://www.doyrms.com/ Duke of York's Royal Military School website] www.doyrms.com<br>
*The story of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130128024948/http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/kendall%2Dfamily.org/html/3_brothers_and_a_son.html 3 brothers and a son]. John Kendall’s indian-cemeteries.org, now archived. Thomas Kendall, born in 1838 in India (possibly in Moulmein, Burma in 1838 ), joined the RMA on 3rd December 1847.*A different and unconnected school was the [http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/HampsteadSoldiers/ Royal Soldiers' Daughters' Home, Hampstead, London] a charity for destitute female children of soldiers.
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