3-017-066 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Prizes and Prize-Winners of the Calcutta Volunteer Rifle Matches at Barrackpore, [India], 1865. Participants in '...competitive trials in skill as marksmen...The gentlemen grouped around this table are the successful competitors of the two last annual meetings - namely, Lieutenant J. Mackenzie, Captain M. J. Pearson, Lieutenant Fred. G. Teale, Private E. Lane, and Private J. Morrison, in the front row, sitting; Corporal Fink, Colour-Sergeant G. Robb, Sergeant Humphreys, Private Goebels, Private D. C. Creaton, Sergeant Dods, Sergeant Boggs, Captain John Rose, Sergeant Macdonald, Private Pratt, and Private Hannah, in the back row, standing. No man was allowed to carry off more than one prize. For this year's meeting a Rigby rifle, given by Colonel Douglas; and silver vases, given by Dr. Barry, the Hon. W. S. Fitzwilliam, and the Hon. W. Grey, were added to the prizes of last year'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.