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FROM 
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 
“2 @LB AFIS —— 
LEFROY GOLD MEDAL. 
Arter the conclusion of the business of the R.A.I. Charities and Games’ Fund on 
the 12th July 1896, Lieut.-General E. Markham, I.G.O., said—‘ Gentlemen, I 
have to-day the pleasure of handing to the winner the Lefroy Gold Medal for the 
current year. Perhaps some of you may have forgotten that this medal is given 
to the officer passing the best examination on leaving the Senior Class of the 
Artillery College. Captain Maurice Lloyd has on this occasion, I believe, nade 
almost a record, having obtained honours in every subject. Not only has he done 
credit to himself, but we are all pleased that the Deputy-Adjutant-General Royal 
Artillery should have such a son. Captain Lloyd I have much pleasure in hand- 
ing you this medal. 
Captain Lloyd briefly expressed his thanks and the proceedings terminated. 
Tue “ Advance Class’ dinner took place on Wednesday evening, 17th June, at 
the Hotel Cecil. Amongst those present were :—Major-General Tweedie, R.A., 
Major-General Wardell, R.A., Colonel Bainbridge, R.A., Lieut.-Colonel Dawson, 
R.A., Lieut.-Colonel Hemans, R.A., Major Hadden, R.A., Major Leach, R.A., 
Major Ward, R.A., Major Pease, R.M.A., Captain Adair, R.A., Captain Camp- 
bell, R.A., Captain Cooper-Key, R.A., Captain Farmar, R.A., Captain Fisher, 
R.A., Captain Lloyd, R.A., Captain Martel, R.A., Captain Minchin, R.A., Captain 
Nathan, R.A., Captain Ormiston, R.A., Captain Randolph, R.A., Captain Rolt, 
R.A., Captain Tisdall, R.A., Captain Wallace, Suffolk Regiment, Lieut. Bellairs, 
R.A., Lieut. Carlyon, North Staffordshire Regiment, Lieut. Davies, R.A., Lieut. 
Owen, R.A., Lieut. Phipps, R.A. 
REGIMENTAL DINNER, 1896. 
Tus was the first occasion upon which H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge presided 
as Colonel of the Regiment at the Regimental Dinner since his resignation of the 
appointment of Commander-in-Chief: it was therefore most gratifying to be able 
to state that, with the exception of the year 1893, when the Regiment welcomed 
Lord Roberts home from India and invited H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught to 
meet him, this is a record year as regards numbers dining, no less than 179 
officers having been present. 
As regards the dinner club ; since the promulgation of the new rules, reducing 
the entrance fees, there has been an accession of 40 members: or to put the 
matter plainly in relation to other years, 40 members have joined the dinner club 
in three months, as against 27 members in the preceding four years. 
These facts show conclusively that the large majority who voted in favour of 
the new rules, as regards membership and price of dinner, have effectually backed 
their opinion, while the minority who dissented on the subject of the turtle soup 
have accepted the adverse vote in a friendly spirit. 
Many complaints have been made on the subject of the band, a pretty general 
feeling seems to prevail that a combination of dinner and band is not a satisfactory 
arrangement, as you must either shout down the band if you want to talk to your 
friends, or else sit silent in order to listen to the music and thereby sacrifice the 
principal object of the dinner, viz., social intercourse with your brother officers. 
An experiment was therefore made this year which it is hoped gave satisfaction, 
viz., the band did not play during dinner, but between the toasts and until the 
programme was concluded. 
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