1905 Hawaii National Guard Shooting Team, Sea Girt NJ (Prior to est. of Camp Perry)

[Salvage Sailor]

Aloha Everyone,

 

Prior to the establishment of Camp Perry as the site of the National Rifle Matches, the participating marksmanship teams would gather in Sea Girt (or Seagirt) New Jersey in 1905.  This is the 1905 team from the Hawaiian National Guard.  The "photogravure" was taken on August 29th, 1905 and mailed to an address in San Francisco by one of the team, "The Hawaiian Team, We start back for S.F. about the 1st of Sept."

 

Team Photograph taken on August 29th, 1905 at Sea Girt, NJ

 

News Item, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu, 10/05/1905

 

Note the mention of the "photogravure" below in the first paragraph

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

First National Guard Rifle Team Camp Sea Grit, New Jersey, AUG-SEP 1905

Hawaiʻi State Archives

 

 

• In 1905 the War Department granted the National Guard of Hawaii sufficient funds to send a team to the Matches to compete with teams from the regular army and other National Guard organizations. It was composed of a shooting team of ten officers and two enlisted men who had made the highest scores at rifle practice throughout the year. Also accompanying the team were three alternates, a coach and a spotter. Colonel J. H. Soper, the Adjutant General, was in charge of the team, which made only a fair showing against the more experienced teams of the other organizations.  (State of Hawaiʻi Department of Defense website)

 

[Salvage Sailor]

HANG Shooting Team, 1905

 

HANG Shooting Team outside of Iolani Palace, Honolulu

(The Hawaii National Guard Barracks at the time)

 

 

photographs from the Hawaii State Archives