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Mosman - Neutral Bay Rifle Club. Additional Info: Back Row Left to Right - F.W.L. (Fred) Travers (kneeling), A.S. Murray, unknown, unknown, unknown, Tom Holt. Middle Row Left to Right – unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown. Front Row Left to Right – unknown sitting, unknown laying, D.S. Macdonald, unknown laying (partly behind Macdonald. Note on back of photo by Ken Lee suggests early 1950’s. Rod Evans suggests earlier photo of 1930’s.On March 27th 1915, the Inaugural General Meeting of the Mosman-Neutral Bay Rifle Club was held and the “Rifle and Training Corps” called for by the citizens of Mosman and Neutral Bay was born. In the fervour of the early days of WW1, over 700 Mosman and Neutral Bay men joined the Rifle Club, and from those members who received their initial military training with the Club, more than 240 enlisted in the armed forces with 16 of those losing their lives in the conflict.