The Shooting Book
, Headbourne Worthy Shoot 1936. Patrick is kneeling at the front My father was a fine shot and kept a shooting book for more than 50 years. He began shooting with Percy Bragg at Headbourne Worthy , but it was at Litchfield that he made his mark, probably after Carey Druce had given him his prized pair of Holland & Holland 'Royals' . For example, his book records shooting over Litchfield and Dunley on four occasions in September 1943 alone (as well as shooting stag on Mull on 27th September) with our step-grandfather Sir Alfred Herbert (known to us as 'Step'), Col Kingsmill , Sir Geoffrey Watson, Sir Ralph Sperling, Maj Deane, Maj Phelps, Capt Cornwall, Dr Ironside and his own father, Capt VA Lawford . Later entries bear the names of Sir T Dunhill, Sir E Bell, Percy Bragg and Air Marshall Sir Arthur Barratt. On some days, the party (usually of eight guns) picked up more than 1000 birds (pheasant and partridge) as well as numerous other game. Sir Alfred...