The Imperial Service College (ISC) was an English independent school based in

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, originally known as St. Mark's School when it was founded in 1845. In 1906, St Mark’s School absorbed boys from the former

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, which had failed. In 1911, St Mark’s was also in difficulties, and after securing support from the Imperial Service College Trust it was renamed as Imperial Service College, St Mark’s. On the death of Lord Kitchener in 1916, Prince Alexander of Teck, soon to become

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, launched a public appeal for a permanent endowment of the school in Kitchener’s memory. He noted that the Imperial Service College had been founded “for the purpose of providing a public school education for the Sons of Officers of limited means belonging to the Navy, Army, and Higher Civil Services.”“Prince Alexander of Teck in Memory of Lord Kitchener” in ''Land and Water'', Volume 9 (Country Gentleman Publishing Company, 1916), p. 23 In 1942, the school merged with Haileybury to form

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. During the 1950s, part of the site was the home of the Royal Horse Guards Light Aid Detachment Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (LAD REME RHG), while the school’s Kipling Memorial Building (1939) was occupied by the Royal Borough of New Windsor Council. The area is now being redeveloped as offices.

Notable alumni

*Military **

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John L. Collard, MC, Order of the Star of Nepal, Nepalese Burma Medal **

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Charles J. Boulter, MC, O.B.E. **

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Sir Laurence Sinclair, GC **

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Randolph Stuart Mills DFC **Sir

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, MC **

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, DFC, Burma Star **

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, KBE, CB, DSO: the only Australian to command the RAAF Wing in the field in

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and the first Australian to become an Air Marshal **Group Captain Peter Erskine Vaughan-Fowler, CVO, DSO, DFC and bar, AFC, Croix de Guere, Legion d' Honneur *Others **

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and pioneer of

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s **

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: founder of the

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: actor who played the first

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: Indian artist **

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, organist and Cambridge academic. **

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, Russian royal and artist ** Peter Woods, journalist, newsreader

Benefactors

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References

{{Schools in Berkshire Defunct schools in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead * Educational institutions disestablished in 1942 1942 disestablishments in England Haileybury and Imperial Service College