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Mosman - Neutral Bay Rifle Club Hut. Additional Info: Back Row (left to right) Unknown, unknown, unknown, F.W.L. (Fred) Travers, Unknown, unknown, unknown, Unknown, A. (Arthur) Beadle. Middle Row (left to right) Unknown, C.H. (Howard) Cromack, A.S. Murray, S.J. Jackson (left club in 1922 to Sydney Rifle Club??), unknown, unknown. Front Row (left to right) Unknown, D.S. Macdonald, unknown, H. (Harry) Mason, F.C. (Frank) Mason, E. (Ted) Wiltshire.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.