3-043-823 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Colour-Sergeant Michie, the winner of the Queen's Prize at Wimbledon, 1872. Engraving from a photograph by Herbert Watkins. Meeting of the National Rifle Association on Wimbledon Common, south-west London. 'Mr. Michie is a native of Kirkaldy, and is confidential clerk to a London City merchant. He has, during four successive years, shot among the hundred best marksmen in the first stage of competition for the Queen's prize; but this is the first year that has given him a place in the sixty best shots and a chance of proving his skill at the final stage...Michie, of the London Scottish, had finished at the 1000 yards range with 20 points, having made 22 at 900 yards, and 23 at 800 yards - a total of 65... He was raised upon the shoulders of two comrades, and was thus borne in triumph to the council tent, where he was presented to Earl Ducie, and his rifle was examined. After this he was carried up to the camp of the London Scottish, and was there received with joyful exultation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.