Thursday 8 October 2020

Annual meeting of the National Rifle Association

The shooting having been thus concluded, and the proceedings having been conducted in the most satisfactory manner, but for one unfortunate circumstance, the accidental shooting of Thomas Cooper, a private in the Coldstream Guards, who was employed as a marker, and was mortally wounded by a bullet from the rifle of Sergeant Roberts, musketry-instructor, the distribution of the prizes took place on the ground itself.

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