NRA UK Team to the Channel Islands - 2015
NRA fullbore team to Guernsey & Jersey
Welcome to the website of the NRA fullbore target-rifle tour to the Channel Islands 2015
Introduction from NRA Team Captain (Sarah Cheslyn-Curtis)
I was greatly honoured to be elected captain of the 2015 NRA Team to the Channel Islands. An NRA Team has been sent to the Channel Islands annually since 1935 apart from a break during WWII and the first lady’s captain was Miss Marjorie Forster, GM in 1954. The tour has always aimed to aid talented individual shooters to take their shooting to the next level by gaining experience in touring and team shooting. The teams have found the matches competitive but friendly and touring to these islands enormous fun.
This year’s NRA Team follows in their footsteps with a broad spread of experience and covering every decade from teenager to septuagenarian. Each member will take part in the individual competitions but the climaxes of the tour will be the competitive team matches against Guernsey and Jersey. We aim to provide close competition and hopefully to win but whatever the results we will all gain in experience.
My sincere thanks go to Vice Captain, Nigel Cole-Hawkins and particularly Adjutant, David Crispin who organized all the logistics and also, team members who have committed time and energy, not just to training but also, to fund raising, the brochure, website and other jobs essential to a successful touring team. We are all extremely grateful to our major sponsors; Shard Capital and the NRA Overseas Team Fund, for their generous support of the team and others who have supported us by donation or advertising in the brochure and website. Finally, a special thanks to our Channel Islands hosts who continue to welcome the team on an annual basis.
I wish all team members every success and much enjoyment. Having been to the Channel Islands as a shooter, I am sure everyone will enjoy the experience and come back with a sense of achievement.
Sarah Cheslyn-Curtis
Captain NRA Team to the Channel Islands 2015
Introduction from President of the Guernsey Rifle Club (Peter Sirett)
2015 is a significant date for the Guernsey Rifle Club as it is the 60th anniversary of the construction of the Fort Le Marchant Rifle Range. Part of the cost of the range came from a fund established by the Royal Guernsey Militia in memory of those who gave their lives in the service of their country. The event is immortalized in a carved memorial on a slab of granite to the west of the six hundred yard firing point. The NRA team to the Channel Islands provide us with the opportunity to test ourselves against accomplished adversaries and to develop friendships amongst the shooting fraternity, friendships which are renewed annually at the Imperial Meeting at Bisley. Hopefully you will all enjoy your brief visit to our Island home and take away many pleasant memories of your exploits on what is commonly regarded as the most scenic rifle range in Europe, if not in the world.
Peter Sirett
President of the Guernsey Rifle Club
Introduction from President of the Jersey Rifle Association (Cliff Mallett)
On behalf of the Executive, Council and Members of the Jersey Rifle Association I should like to extend a very warm welcome to the Captain of the 2015 National Rifle Association Team to the Channel Islands and to all of her team’s members who are talking part in our Spring Meeting Championships.
I wish you all a most enjoyable weekend and good shooting to all.
Cliff Mallett
President of the Jersey Rifle Association
The PDF document below is an electronic version of the published tour brochure
