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7 unusual facts about Shrivenham


Arjun Ray

As a young major, he was selected to attend the Scientific Reorientation Course at Shrivenham, England; and the Staff College at Camberley ).

Ervin Y. Galantay

He has lectured about urban warfare (Military Operations Urban Terrain - MOUT) at the U. S. Army General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth and numerous other venues: at the British Army's War studies department and at the Conflict Studies Research Centre, Sandhurst and Shrivenham, as well as to Swiss and Hungarian military audiences.

G.I. American Universities

Two further campuses were later established, in August 1945: the first in the French resort town of Biarritz and the second in the English town of Shrivenham, Berkshire.

Isabel Talbot, Baroness Talbot de Malahide

She became heavily involved with the Women's Institute and founded a branch (and served as its president) near her country home at Compton Regis, near Shrivenham, Berkshire.

Royal Artillery Barracks

Despite being a listed building, it too was demolished (in 1975), the College having moved to Shrivenham in 1939.

Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps

Certain ATO are selected for further training at the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham.

Royal School of Military Survey

Fully successful students graduate from Cranfield University, Cranfield Defence and Security (CDS), formerly the Defence College of Management and Technology, based at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, during the July following the course.


Giles Fraser

Fraser has lectured on moral leadership for the British Army at the Defence Academy at Shrivenham.


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