The monthly shoot of "B" Compony of the S.V.C. produced another remarkable proof of the influence of heredity in marksmanship. " Private J, Ellis, one of the latest recruits to the Company, who had not yet fired a course, was the winner both of the monthly ' shoot and of the St, Dunstan's Cup, and Mr. Euis's father, 'T, J. Ellis, some 30 years ago was a champion shot in the Corps, Mr. Ellis was present on the range to see his son carry on the family tradition and the double victory was highly gratifying to all members of the [Company present, Examples of heredity in volunteer musketry have been provided by the triumphs of the famous Fultons—father and son, both King's Prizemen and both members of the Queen's Westminster Rides, the regiment in which a former Commandant of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, Colonel Thoms, gained his frst taste of soldiering as full private.
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