Stewart takes the top cadet honours
IN CANADA’S rifle-shooting equivalent of Bisley’s Imperial Meeting, Alexander Stewart of Elizabeth College all but swept the board as this year’s cadet champion at the Connaught Ranges in Ottawa.
He won the cadet grand aggregate, took the Bond Trophy for the top-placed cadet in the Governor-General’s final – the equivalent of Bisley’s Queen’s Prize– and the Walker Cup for the 1,000 yards cadet aggregate.
Young Stewart travelled to Canada after the Bisley meeting as a member of the Great Britain cadet rifle team known as ‘The Athelings’.
Guernsey cadets from Elizabeth College have been selected to shoot for Great Britain since the 1930s – the island’s former Lt Governor, Sir Peter Le Cheminant, was an early Atheling from the College in 1937.
The present master-in-charge of shooting at the College and currently president of the Guernsey Rifle Club, Peter Jory, was also an Atheling in 1992.
‘Alexander has emulated his shooting master in being top Atheling and finishing in the top 50 in the “Canadian Grand” and we all look forward to his having a hugely successful future in the sport for the island.’
