Tag Archives: Addiscombe Military College

Gordon family’s service that stretched through the generations

Posted on September 22, 2024 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Among the thousands of young men who passed through the gates of the East India Company’s Addiscombe academy in the 19th Century, one Scot rose through the ranks in a career that has been carefully traced by DAVID … Continue reading →

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Spectacular history of Addiscombe college is required reading

Posted on July 16, 2023 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: It played a significant part of the history of Croydon, and of Britain, yet today is largely forgotten. DAVID MORGAN reviews an important and surprising new book about Addiscombe Military College Kate Birbeck’s new book Addiscombe Military College … Continue reading →

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Book traces role of Addiscombe college that built an empire

Posted on July 8, 2023 by insidecroydon

READER OFFER: Inside Croydon subscribers can save £££s on the price of an important and definitive new book about the history of the Addiscombe Military College, its staff and cadets A copy of an important new history of the Addiscombe … Continue reading →

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