Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Schoolmaster W. A. Nulty, Corps of Army Schoolmasters, late Royal Military Asylum

Army L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (Schmstr, C. of A.S.); Royal Military Asylum Good Conduct Medal (W. A. Nulty), silver, this with silver buckle on ribbon, good very fine (2) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Prize, Training Ship, Nursing & Other Medals from the James N. Spencer Collection.

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The Royal Military Asylum was founded in 1801 by Frederick, Duke of York, the second son of King George III. It was founded in the midst of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars to house the orphan or destitute children of fallen soldiers. Modelled on the Royal Hibernian Military School (1765-1924), the Asylum at Chelsea received it’s Royal Charter in 1801 and took in the first of it’s children in 1803. Initially taking in boys and girls, it was ahead of its time in providing an education for working class children. By the 1850’s it had instigated a program of training certain of it’s students for service as Sergeant Schoolmasters in the Army. In 1892 the Royal Military Asylum was renamed the Duke of York’s Royal Military School and in 1909 the school moved to new premises on the Downs of Dover in Kent.

William Albert Nulty was born on 1 June 1872 and was appointed Warrant Officer Schoolmaster on 1 January 1902. By 1918 he held the rank of Honorary Lieutenant and was an Inspector of Army Schools, based at Aldershot. On 15 June 1920 he was promoted Captain in the Army Education Corps. He last appears in the Army List of 1922.