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1917
The Corps armaments and musical instruments were stored in a large wooden building situated roughly where the North Wall is today. At the outbreak of war, on the
instructions of the War Office, all the School’s rifles were transferred to the basement of the Oxford Town Hall for ‘safe keeping’. They were returned shortly afterwards as
were found to be of Crimean War and Boer War vintage and of no danger to anyone! By 1917 the Corps rifles had been upgraded so as to allow more realistic training for
the Cadets before they left for the fronts.