Army Apprentices School, Harrogate

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Welcome board outside Uniacke Barracks, Penny Pot Lane - March 1965

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[edit] Introduction

The Army Apprentices School, Harrogate (AAS Harrogate), established in 1947, was sited either side of Penny Pot Lane, outside Harrogate ... utilising Uniacke and Hildebrande Barracks. The School was renamed the Army Apprentices College, Harrogate (AAC Harrogate) in 1966 (in line with other such establishments) and thus remained so until its eventual closure after the Final Graduation Parade on 2nd August 1996.

[edit] The Early Years

  • Trade Training

The trades taught at the school in the 1950s, divided into categories according to which Corps the apprentices would join on completion of their course, (each course usually lasting three years at that time) were:


  • Redeployment

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

  • After Harrogate
    • RASC apprentices
    • RA apprentices
    • RE
      • RE Survey apprentices: RE Survey has its own self-contained units within the Royal Engineers and therefore the Army-trained surveyors (including field surveyors, cartographic draughtsmen, printers, and so on), whether they were trained at the Apprentice schools or were direct entry to the School of Military Survey at Hermitage near Newbury, were usually posted to specific survey units after training. This meant that they formed a fairly close-knit community throughout their service, knowing, serving with or hearing of the other surveyors in the community. Many of them have kept in touch with each other since leaving the Army, both through personal contact and by being members of the Royal Engineers Association (REA) and in 1999 the Military Survey (Geographic) Branch of the REA was formed.
  • Updates
    • RE
      • RE Survey apprentices: In January 2006 the Survey Branch REA website www.survey-branch-rea.co.uk was launched and already contains many articles and photographs, contributed mostly by the surveyors themselves, of the history and achievements of British Military surveying, mostly post World War II. The site covers the training units (Apprentice schools at Harrogate and Chepstow and the School of Military Survey at Newbury) as well as the production units: 13 Field Survey Squadron, 14 Field Survey Squadron, 19 Topographic Squadron, 42 Survey Engineer Regiment, 84 (Field) Survey Squadron, 89 Field Survey Squadron, 1 Air Survey Liaison Section, 1 Radar Air Survey Liaison Section, 2 Army Field Survey Depot, 47 GHQ Survey Squadron, 135 Survey Engineer Regiment (TA). These units served in, and in many cases mapped, the following places (post WWII): U.K., Aden Protectorates (now part of Yemen), Cyprus, Egypt, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Malaya, Oman, Sabah, Sarawak, Singapore, United Arab Emirates (Trucial States), as well as sending detachments to Christmas Island in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean and other places throughout the world.

[edit] See also

The Association of Harrogate Apprentices which also includes general History etc. of the site.

The Army Foundation College, Harrogate which now occupies Uniacke barracks.

[edit] External Links

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