Shooting

Shooting

Ladies Rifle Club members entertained at Government House

Albert Kempster with trophies for shooting. He won a bronze medal at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. He was a member of the British shooting team at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics. In 1908 he finished fifth in the running deer single shots competition as well as in the running deer double shots event. Four years later he won the bronze medal as member of the British team in the team 30 metre military pistol event, as well as in the team 50 metre military pistol competition. In the individual 50 metre pistol event he finished 24th. He came to Jersey in the early 1890s. He was attached to the Northampton Regiment at the time and married a Breton, Eleanor Grosvalet, in 1898 not long before being sent to South Africa, where war had broken out and from where he was later invalided home with enteric fever. In 1900 he was appointed to the permanent staff of the Royal Jersey Militia. He possessed an exceedingly good voice singing opera and operetta. He was an amateur boxer, gymnast and swordsman boxing for the British army in front of the Prince of Wales and the German Kaiser. He was awarded for bravery with the Albert Medal when at great risk to himself he stopped a runaway horse and carriage

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  The old Grouville rifle range on the common
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  Grouville shooters
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  The King's Hundred at Bisley in the 1930s
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  The Kolapore Trophy shoot at Bisley in 1927
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  The Kolapore Trophy shoot at Bisley in the 1930s
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  Western Miniature Rifle Club with the Wills Trophy
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  Grouville Common rifle range
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  Grouville Common rifle range
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  Grouville Common rifle range
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  Colin Malet, Commonwealth Games gold medal winner in 1990
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  St Helier, Wills Trophy winners in 1908
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  An unknown sharpshooter with his trophies in the 1890s
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  Jersey Target Rifle Club, picture courtesy of Facebook group Temps Passe
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  A successful club team, possibly St Peter, in about 1920
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  An 1890s shooting party
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  Jersey shooters at Bisley in 1922
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  A porte d'armes, a licence to own a gun issued by parishes
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  Trinity Rifle Club - date unknown
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  1924 advert for a four-day competition

Andrew and Sue Le Cheminant, who came first and second in a prestigious Bisley competition in 1993

Lady shooters on Grouville Common