Colours will be placed in Windsor Castle (from The Times September 1924)

The King has been pleased to take charge of the colours of the Royal Hibernian Military School, which will be deposited in Windsor Castle next Friday. On September 2, 1853, the school received its first colours from the Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII. Fifty years later, on July we, 1903, King Edward presented new colours to the school, and these colours were carried on parage for the last time on July 15, 1924.

The school at Shorncliffe has been closed down, and the boys have been transferred to the Duke of York's Royal Military School at Dover. About 1,250 old boys served in the Great War. Of these 80 were killed or died of wounds, 54 were wounded, one was awarded the V.C., a great number received decorations and medals for bravery in the field, and 51 were promoted to commissioned rank.

The Hibernian Society in Dublin was founded in 1760 for maintaining, educating and putting to trades the orphan children and other children of soldiers in Ireland. In 1806 the school was taken over by the War Office, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland becoming the president and Commander of the Forces in Ireland vice-president. It became known as the Royal Hibernian Military School and was granted a charter by Queen Victoria in 1871.

In its old Dublin home the school was one of the sights of the old capital. It was a perfectly organized, self-contained unit, with its own farm, laundry, workshops, swimming bath, churches, hospital, Post Office savings bank and telephone system. Its band always enjoyed a high reputation. The majority of boys on leaving school volunteered for service in the Army.