Wins by one point!

During the visit by the North Devon branch of the Royal Marine Association to the annual reunion at Eastney Barracks, Southsea, one of their members, Mr Dave Jaggard, of 7 Nelson Terrace, Westward Ho! won the individual .22 rifle competition, beating the previous three-year holder, of Portsmouth RMA, by one point.

Thirty-three-year-old Mr Jaggard has made marksmanship a hobby since boyhood. He spent two years’ National Service in the Royal Marines and represented them at Bisley. He equalled a record while at Exmouth by winning the snap and rapid firing competitions two years running there.

He has lived in this district for seven years and his wife, before her marriage, was Miss Joyce Badcock, daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Badcock, formerly of Bideford and now of Westward Ho! For six years he played football for Appledore until an accident to his hand caused him to give up the game. For much of his time in this district he was a welder with Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd, but now is in business on his own account in his original trade as a pattern-maker in which he was trained at Melton Mowbray. He also assists in the family fish and chip business at Westard Ho!

The full Gazette article is dated 10 October 1969