The Beginnings of Mosman-Neutral Bay Rifle Club

Acknowledgements

Club Sources:

• Club Members: Ray Franklin, Graeme Berman, Frank McDermott, Rod Evans, Phillip Somerville.
• Club Minutes and Annual Reports 1915 -1920
• Correspondence and Documents gifted to the Club from the estates C.H. Cromack and F.W.L. Travers

Non-Club Images:

In researching the Club’s history photographs were included from a number of sources. The images contained in this document are from the collection of the Mosman-Neutral Bay Rifle Club with the exception of a Photograph of the Club’s First Captain, A.D. Walker is courtesy of the Mosman Library – Local Studies section.

Trove Newspapers and Picture Australia

A number of images are from the Trove Website for Newspapers and Picture Australia and their various contributors.

Non-Club References:

• “A Plain Brick Building…” Neutral Bay Public School 1886 ~ 1986, Jillian Skinner
• 1929 Textbook of Smallarms. H.M. War Office Publication

Websites:

The following websites provided background information on rifles, ammunition, histories of military units, (both AIF and Cadet) and are well worth browsing through for their content of Australian history alone.

http://anzacday.org.au

http://harringtonmuseum.org.uk

http://chuckhawks.com

http://members.lycos.co.uk/rifle_range/index-26.html

http://www.uidaho.edu/~stratton/history.htm

http://diggerhistory.info/

http://members.optushome.com.au/lee-enfield/303brit.html

http://www.researchpress.co.uk/firearms/lee.htm

http://www.geocites.com/lee_enfield_rifles/P14.html