A GREAT MARKSMAN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1915, Page 2

A GREAT MARKSMAN.

Tho death of Lieutenant H. BL Ommundsen (Honorable Artillery Company), announced in the cable messages recently, deprives the Empire of its most famous and distinguished marksman (writes "Marker" in the Argus). Lieutenant Ommundsen was well known in Australia, bavins; visited the Commonwealth in 1907 with the British rifle team. He wasagnm selected last' year to. represent' the Mother Country in a tour of Aus-. tr-ilia. When war was declared he was, with his bride, on the wny here, but was recoiled to jom liis regiment. Whenever and whoror er tho history of rifle shooting i« written or referred1 to, the name of sen must occur. ■ The two things go together. As every rifleman knows, Lieutenant Ommundsen won every, chief honor in marksmanship, and a. record of his successes. would fill .1 volume. He was the first and, senior King's prizeman, silver medal-' list, bronze medallist, thrice winnerof tho gold cross, and twice the silver cross. Five times ho won the ServiceRiSe Championship, and thrice the' Territorial Aggregate.