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[National Rifle Association]

The following Volunteers have been elected by the National Rifle Association to compose the British team which will visit America to shoot in the match between the British Volunteers and the National Guard of the United States:—Committee—Lieut.-Colonel Sir Henry Halford Bart., 1st Leicester R.V.; Lient.-Colonel Waldron, M.P., 1st Devon; Major Humphry, Cambridge University R.V.; H. Smith, Civil Service Rifles, Hon. Secretary. Selected Team—Corporal Bates, 1st Warwick; Private Boulter, 2nd Cheshire; Corporal Caldwell, 1st Renfrew; Serjeant Dods, 1st Berwick; Captain Godsal, 2nd Bucks; Private Goodear, 6th Lancashire; Lieutenant Heap, 6th Lancashire; Private M'Vittie, 1st Dumfries; Captain Mellish, 2nd Notts; Serjeant Oliver, 3rd Kent; Corporal Parry, 2nd Cheshire; Major Pearse, 4th Devon.

Source: The Illustrated London News, No.2257—Vol. LXXXI, Saturday, August 5, 1882, p.147