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Major R. H. Murdoch, R.A., Assistant Superintendent, R.A. Records, is 
engaged on the " Memoirs Historical and Biographical” of the family of 
Desaguliers; he will be much obliged if anyone can give him information as to 
the representatives of this family at the present day. 
Royal Naval Review, Spithead, 26th June, 1897. 
Aftbr closing the accounts in connection with the R.A. Steamer at the Naval 
Review, the Balance Credit was found to be £56 17s. Od. 
This amount has been handed over to the Secretary, R.A. Charities, Woolwich # 
N. D. FINDLAY, Major, R.A. 
E. W. BLUNT, Captain, R.A. 
Camberley, 
September , 1897. 
BERMUDA, 
A few notes on recent events in the small sporting world of the small Island of 
Bermuda, may possibly afford some interest to officers of the Regiment, who have 
at one time or another, been quartered there. It is proverbially a place where 
nothing ever happens, and, no doubt the chronicle of this small beer may assume 
undue proportions in the eyes of the Bermuda gunners of the moment. Still the 
place is usually belied—it could scarcely be belittled—at home, and those who 
know it, may have sufficiently tender recollections of its amusements in the past, 
to tempt their attention to some of its doings in the present. 
The Bermudas, or Somers’, or Summer Isles, as they are sometimes not un¬ 
reasonably called, are a chain-dotted line of Coral reefs, somewhat resembling in 
shape a Bishop’s crozier, of which St. George’s forms the butt end, and Ireland 
Island, the tip of the crook. From time ifnmemorial St. George’s has been 
regarded as the head-quarters of the gunners. In March last, one company was 
moved to Ireland Island, there to be stationed permanently. This was a blow to 
the mess, and to the R.A. as an athletic entity. St. George’s and Ireland Island 
are only ten miles apart, in point of distance as the crow flies, but in point of time, 
as wide asunder as the poles; and in 1897, for the first time for many years, no 
Regimental Sports could be held. 
The sports of the Leinster Regiment, however, took place about the second week 
of April, and the greatest interest was taken in the tug-of-war, open to the Garrison 
and Fleet, owing to the Leinster team (who arrived here with a great reputation) 
being beaten in 1896 by the gunners—the Irishmen naturally thirsted for 
revenge. Both teams were highly trained for what was regarded as the return 
pull; Sergeant Walden, 3 Company, Western Division, got his men into splendid 
condition for this occasion. The Fleet—blue jackets, marines and stokers—and 
the R.A. 2nd team were soon disposed of and “ Gunner Greek met Leinster 
Greek” in the semi-final. After a grand struggle, the R.A. won by two pulls to 
love and easily beat the 2nd team of the Leinsters’ in the final. Our men averaged 
13 st. 2% lbs.; the Leinsters’, 13 st. 6^-lbs. The open mile at these sports was 
won easily by Trumpeter Walker. At the naval sports, the R.A. team again beat 
the Leinsters* in the open tug-of-war—this time easily-—and Trumpeter Walker 
won the open mile in 4 min. 55 sec., with no one to press him and fully 50 yards 
to spare. In all athletic sports—Naval, R.A., R.E. and Leinsters’—in the two 
seasons, 1896-97, every event open to N.C.O.’s and men of Garrison and Fleet 
has been won by the R.A., including 5 tugs-of-war, the final of each being 
contested by a Leinster team, 
