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THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1989
THE COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION ATTRACTED
OTHERS
25,873
85 FROM KANAGAWA PREFECTURE AND REGIONS IN THE WORLD, INCLUDING 78 FROM HONG KONG.
14,371
ENTRIES
COUNTRIES
FROM AND TWO
CHILDREN AND 615 KONG, WERE
OF THE OVER 40,000 ENTRIES, 587 BY JAPANESE BY CHILDREN OF OTHER COUNTRIES, INCLUDING SEVEN FROM HONG SELECTED FOR DISPLAY AT AN EXHIBITION IN YOKOHAMA.
HK REGIMENT SHOOTS TO SUCCESS
THE
THE ROYAL HONG KONG REGIMENT'S SHOOTING TEAM RETURNED FROM
TERRITORIAL UNITED KINGDOM TODAY (THURSDAY) FOLLOWING SUCCESS IN THE ARMY SKILL AT ARMS MEETING (TASAAM) AT BISLEY IN SOUTHEAST ENGLAND,
BROUGHT TOGETHER THROUGHOUT BRITAIN AND
THE COMPETITION, HELD BETWEEN JULY 3 AND 9, EXPERT MARKSMEN FROM MOST RESERVE ARMY UNITS WAS ORGANISED BY THE TERRITORIAL ARMY RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
THE REGIMENT'S
WON SHOOTERS
THE TEAM PISTOL COMPETITION
AND TROOPERS GILBERT U KING-HUNG AND JOE HO MANG-KEUNG CAME SECOND AND WON THIRD RESPECTIVELY IN THE INDIVIDUAL PISTOL EVENT. TROOPER U ALSO THE CLASS B CHAMPIONSHIP WHICH WAS OPEN TO MEMBERS WITH LESS THAN FIVE YEARS' MILITARY SERVICE.
MANAGEMENT THE REGIMENT TEAM COMPRISED EIGHT SHOOTERS AND FOUR
YEAR THE REGIMENT HAD STAFF, AND THIS WAS THE SECOND SUCCESSIVE
PRESTIGIOUS SHOOTING COMPETED IN TASAAM, CONSIDERED TO BE A HIGHLY EVENT IN THE UK.
CAPTURE IT WAS TEAM EFFORT THAT HELPED THE HONG KONG REGIMENT
OUTSTANDING MARKSMANSHIP FROM AND THE TEAM PISTOL CHAMPIONSHIP,
REGIMENT'S OVERALL TROOPERS GILBERT U AND JOE HO CONTRIBUTED TO THE SUCCESS AT THE COMPETITION.
A WELL-KNOWN
SHOOTER
WHO
AT OTHER
REPRESENTED INTERNATIONAL
GILBERT U KING-HUNG, HONG KONG AT THE SEOUL OLYMPICS AND TOURNAMENTS, JOINED THE ROYAL HONG KONG REGIMENT IN SEPTEMBER 1988. IN CIVILIAN LIFE HE IS A MERCHANT.
YEARS,
MORE THAN EIGHT NUMEROUS ELECTRONICS
SHOOTING
PRODUCTS
JOE HO MANG-KEUNG HAS BEEN A VOLUNTEER FOR
IN THE REGIMENT HAVING REPRESENTED COMPETITIONS. IN CIVILIAN LIFE HE HAS HIS OWN BUSINESS.
LO FOOK- LOONG
OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SHOOTING TEAM INCLUDE SERGEANT SHUEN; CORPORALS CHAN WAI-SHUN AND NG YUK-MING; LANCE CORPORAL KAR-MING; AND TROOPERS SHING SAI-KEUNG AND LIEW SAN-YUEN.
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