The evening saw a merry lot sitting round the usual great camp fire, song after song passing on from officer or man until the bugle rung out the retire, and visitor and volunteer quitted the scene. But they had to be up early the next day; breakfasts soon after daybreak, their tents to strike, and the whole camp to be packed. This done, a picnic dinner on the short crisp turf of the wild downs, and the whole marched to Warminster on the return to their respective homes. The Expenses of the Camp were £325 Camp Allowance £327 Subscriptions £30 The Capitation Grant earned was £1088 Head Quarters, Warminster, _1st November, 1885_. 1st Wilts Volunteer Battalion.--Summary of Annual Returns. KEY TO COLUMN HEADINGS: a. Company. b. Station. c. Efficients. d. Non-Efficients. e. Total Enrolled. f. Officers. g. Sergeants. h. "Tactics." Certificated Officers. i. Marksmen. j. Remarks. +----+------------+----+----+-----+------------+--+---+---------------------+ | | | | | |Certificates| | | | | | | | | | of | | | | | | | | | |Proficiency.| | | | |----+------------+----+----+-----+------+-----+--+---+---------------------| | a. | b. | c.| d.| e. | f. | g. |h.| i.| j. | |----+------------+----+----+-----+------+-----+--+---+---------------------| | A. | Salisbury | 91| 4| 95 | | 6 | |30 | | | B. | Salisbury | 98| 2|100 | 1 | 5 | |25 | | | D. | Trowbridge | 61| 3| 64 | 2 | 5 |1 |10 | | | E. | Bradford | 82| 4| 86 | 1 | 5 | | 0 |Range only 300 yards.| | F. | Warminster | 79| 3| 82 | 1 | 8 | |37 | | | G. | Westbury | 50| 2| 52 | 1 | 1 | |11 | | | H. | Wilton | 67| 3| 70 | 3 | 4 | |29 | | | | Staff | 15| 2| 17 | 3 | 1 | 1| | | | +------------+----+----+-----+------+-----+--+---+ | | | Totals | 614| 25|639 | 13 | 40 | 2| | | +----+------------+----+----+-----+------+-----+--+---+---------------------+ (Signed) J.W. Hume, _Major and Adjutant, 1st Wilts Rifle Volunteers_.