United Services College


The United Services College was an English boys' public school for the sons of military officers, located at Westward Ho! near Bideford in North Devon. Almost all boys were boarders. The school was founded to prepare pupils for a career as officers in the armed services, many of them going on to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, or the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

History

The college was founded in 1874. Its first headmaster, Cormell Price, was a housemaster at Haileybury College and took twelve Haileybury boys with him to the new school.
USC was absorbed by the Imperial Service College in 1906, which in turn merged with Haileybury College in 1942.
As at virtually all boys' schools of its era, corporal punishment was used, but USC was very unusual in that the cane was applied to the student's upper back rather than the buttocks.

Notable former pupils