Concurrent with the Grand Aggregate. Open to members of the Guernsey Rifle Club eligible to shoot for Guernsey in the Kolapore. First Prize: The Australia Cup, a silver cup presented in 1937 by the then Commandant of the Australian Rifle Team, Col Sir Charles Merret, “in recognition of [Guernsey’s] gallant effort to win the Rajah of Kolapore’s Imperial Challenge Cups” and first awarded in 1952. A tie for the first prize will be shot off on the spot.

The 1937 Guernsey Kolapore team. Final result: 1, Australia 1121; 2, Guernsey 1113; 3, Canada 1110; 4, Mother Country 1108; 5, India 1095; 6, Jersey 1076.

In 1937, Guernsey finished as runners-up to Australia by eight points—just one point per firer—and had the best 600 yards score of any team. Australia, which was making its first appearance in the match for nine years, recognised its win over the island and the unfortunate nature by which it triumphed in a year where Guernsey had beaten Great Britain by gifting the club a specially made silver cup, together with eight small replicas for each member of the team.

Australia’s Commandant, Col. Sir Charles Merrett, wrote a letter to Guernsey’s captain, Lt Col RW Randall, expressing his hope that “the emblem on the cup [depicting Australia] may serve to remind you of the goodwill-offering from the largest island in the Empire to one of the smallest”, and saying that “though the oceans may divide us, we surely are British still throughout the wide, wide world.” Since 1952, the cup has been awarded to the highest-scoring Guernseyman in the Grand Aggregate competition contested at the island’s annual summer prize meeting.