Nottinghamshire Rifle Association

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE RIFLE ASSOCIATION

The thirty-sixth prize meeting of the Nottinghamshire Rifle Association was held on Tuesday on the Trent Range, when the Notts. Rifle Association silver medal, the National Rifle Association bronze medals, and £38 15s.in prizes were competed for. The association prizes in all numbered 25, the first premium being, as already indicated, the silver medal, and also £5, the second £3, the third £2, seven of 30s., and the remainder of £1 each, the competition being for Martini-Henry rifles or carbines, and open to members resident in the county who have paid their subscriptions for the current year. The ranges were at 200, 500, and 600 yards, a sighter being allowed, and seven rounds at each being fired. The contest for the National Rifle Association bronze medal was open to enrolled or veteran volunteers of the county, not previous winners, all securing the award on the present occasion being entitled to compete for the Prince of Wales' prize of £100 and badge at the meeting of the National Rifle Association at Bisley. The third event was for recruits at 200, 500, and 600 yards, the first prize being the recruits bronze medal, and 20s., the second 15s., third, fourth and fifth 10s. each. Two sweepstakes for all comers, the first at 200, 500, and 600 yards, and the second at 600 yards range only were also arranged the prizes in each instance being a percentage of the entrance fees according to the results obtained. In the appended scores of the prize-winners the competitors are members of the Robin Hoods save where the names of other regiments are affixed:–

ASSOCIATION PRIZES

	200	500	600	Tl.
Private J Leavesley	31	33	34	98
Corporal WH Stevenson	25	35	30	90
Sergeant HW Davis	26	33	29	88
Lieutenant J Ashworth	34	30	24	88
Private TE Burrows	30	32	26	88
Colour-Sergeant W Comery	33	32	23	88
Private W Ashby	28	31	27	86
Sergeant O Wood (4th Notts)	30	29	26	85
Lieutenant EG Moore	29	31	25	85
Colour-Sergeant St. Leo Smith	30	30	25	85
Corporal AJ Rushton (4th Notts)	28	25	31	84
Major H Mellish (4th Notts)	27	27	29	83
Sergeant-Instructor Prattinton (4th Notts)	28	30	25	83
Sergeant RH Page	30	30	23	83
Sergeant T Loates	30	30	23	83
Sergeant A Poole	25	29	28	82
Corporal Dyson (4th Notts)	27	27	28	82
Corporal WN Caunt	29	24	28	81
Corporal Simpson (4th Notts)	28	26	26	80
Private JH Hargreaves (4th Notts)	28	27	25	80
Corporal F Heathcote	28	32	20	80
Corporal J Frampton (4th Notts)	30	30	20	80
Sergeant WH Aldam	23	30	26	79
Sergeant Bailey (4th Notts)	29	25	25	79
Private TF Revell	26	33	20	79

  

BRONZE MEDAL OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

	200	500	600	Tl.
Private WH Stevenson	25	35	30	90
Lieutenant J Ashworth	34	30	24	88
Private TR Burrows	30	32	26	88
Sergeant C Wood (4th Notts)	30	29	26	85
Colour-Sergeant St. Leo Smith	30	30	25	85
Corporal AJ Rushton (4th Notts)	28	25	31	84

Previous winners ineligible

  

RECRUITS' BRONZE MEDAL

	200	500	600	Tl.
Lieutenant JG Hancock	29	26	23	78
Private JL Ashwell	24	25	26	75
Lieutenant RE Baily	25	25	24	74
Private S Pywell	24	31	18	73
Private Turvey (4th Notts)	19	27	25	71

  

ALL COMERS SWEEPSTAKES

	200	500	600	Tl.
Private W Ashby	28	35	29	92
Sergeant SH Page	31	24	34	89
Sergeant Vickerstaff (1st Derby)	33	33	23	89
Colour-Sergeant W Comery	31	27	27	85
Private WH Wells (1st Derby)	31	27	26	84
Lieutenant J Ashworth	31	28	25	84
Corporal Tomkins	29	31	23	83
Colour-Sergeant St. Leo Smith	29	27	26	82
Captain Turner Lee	30	28	24	82
Corporal Simpson (4th Notts)	31	29	20	80

  

ALL COMERS SWEEPSTAKES AT 600 YARDS

Sergeant-Instructor Prattinton (4th Notts)	33
Corporal WH Stevenson	30
Private W Perkins (1st Derby)	30
Private W Ashby	30
Major TLK Edge (4th Notts)	30
Private J Leavesley	30
Corporal Tomkins	28
Colour-Sergeant Davies	28
Corporal Simpson (4th Notts)	27
Private A Davies	27