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3 unusual facts about Army Apprentices School


Army Apprentices School, Harrogate

Royal Army Service Corps – Clerks (two year course) (Moved elsewhere in late 1955—certainly by 1970 the Royal Army Ordnance Corps were training All Arms Clerks in their Depot at Deepcut, Camberley, Surrey)

Survey apprentices were trained there until Chepstow Army Apprentices College (as it had become in 1966) was finally closed in 1994.

The RE Survey wing (Royal Engineers land surveyors and mapmakers) moved from AAS Harrogate to AAS Chepstow over a period of a year between 1960 and 1961.


Keith Farnsworth

After spells at the Army Apprentices School, Harrogate, Yorks, and REME Boys’ School, Blackdown, Hants, he subsequently worked for W.H. Hewitt & Co., Hadfields Limited, Weaver to Wearer, Industrial Products (Refractories) Ltd, International Twist Drill Co, and Newton Chambers & Co, Thorncliffe, where he eventually joined the company’s Press Office, and worked with Alf Dow, a former Sheffield Telegraph & Star news editor.


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