Won by the Light in Interesting Test A glorious morning awaited the Volunteers when the detachments of er cent, assembled at the start ing point of this competition at the corner of Bubbling Well and Carter Roads on April M4.
'The competition' this year was diferent in petual conditions apart from the March, and was far mor: interesting. The men arrived after a march, say from their rest billets, ion fairly close-to what ly_be the support From then on, aware th they were going into action, caution had to be observed, and with th: exception of having loaded rifles, which naturally are debarred on the Range, during forward movements for the sal safety. they had to be prepared for an offensive movement, coming into action as quickly as possible when the enemy was righted taking advantage of ground cover and at the same time main taining superiority of fire.
The targets they had to fire on consisted of enemy troops at three stages, first when they were doubling, into position for opening fire, the second when they were in position and exposing as small a target to their Sront as possible, and the third, which we always hope will happen with the Volunteers, when by fire and were i The competition, which was supervised by Colonel Orpen Palmer and his staff, stinted at 7.30 on Sunday morning and finished at about 12.30, 'Twelve units' competed, and it is' gratifying to note that the newest unit in the Corps, the Light Gun Battery, were victorious. The Light Gun team consisted of—Lt. and Mottu, Bar Gr. Sommer, Sgt.
Beichman Egli, Gar, Tries, jar. Vollenweider, Sergt. Ma; Sant, Grr. Ruff, is the first Cor it should be a for congratulation un all sides that they should have picked out one of the hardest teats. They won th competition wit tal of 139.03 ints, with an average of 9.02 for which was the c¢cond Their march discipline excellent, and they came in wit Jan ample margin of time in hand, Jand yet-with every man fresh and ready t put up a serap, The, were well led by: 2nd Lieut, Jensen hho obtained the maximum: score fo" and discipline. The red out with their and in perfect unit commander.
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