King's Mead Shooting successes (.22)

Preparatory Schools Rifle Association - national competitions

(scores in brackets - ex 560)

 St Patrick's Shield
(25 yards)

St George's Shield
(50 yards)
St Andrew's Shield
(100 yards)
  Spring 1924 
Summer 1948
Autumn 1949
Spring 1951
547
521
520
516
  Spring 1928
Spring 1947
Summer 1947
Autumn 1947
Autumn 1948
Spring 1949
Summer 1949
Spring 1950
Spring 1951
516
500
512
514
505
519
496
513
510
  Summer 1947
Autumn 1947
Spring 1948
Autumn 1948
Summer 1950
Autumn 1950
Spring 1951
Summer 1951

507
510
504
501
506
516
516
487

     

  The Lord Robert's Cup
(Highest 2nd VIII )

Autumn 1948 (466)
Spring 1949 (491)
Autumn 1949 (481)

  Photographs of winning VIIIs

1928, 1947, 1951

  Brigadier Pinder is said to have been behind the inspirational performances in the late in 1940s and early 1950s

 Many thanks to Chris Laughton, Chairman of the Prep Schools Rifle Association (also a master at St Andrew's School, Eastbourne) for digging into the PSRA archives for the information above

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