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Horace Donelly

Horace Donnelly Birth year:  
 1898
ACTA Club:  
 Blackburn Gun Club
Preferred Discipline:  
 Trap
Shooting Achievements:

National Titles: 3
National Runner Up: 1
Mackintosh Teams: 2

Personal Info:

Horrie was the second of eight children born to Richard Donelly and Mary Sutherland in the now non-existent gold mining town of Deptford, East Gippsland. He enlisted in 1916 at the age of 18 to fight in WW1 and saw action on the Western Front, in particular at the Battle of the Somme, at Ypres and Villers Bretonneux.

His hobbies included fishing and shooting, and he was very involved in the Blackburn Gun Club during the 1940’s winning the National Double Barrel (1941) shot gun competition and Champion of Champions for Clay Target shooting twice (1941 and 1948), he was also runner up in the Team High Gun in 1948.

In later life Horrie enjoyed gold prospecting and restoring violins. He was a keen ballroom dancer and played the piano accordion and violin at any opportunity. After living in and around the eastern suburbs of Melbourne from the mid-1930’s, Horrie and his wife Zetta moved to Caloundra on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in 1976 to enjoy their retirement. They were joined soon after by their two daughters, Phyllis and Heather who lived in neighbouring suburbs.

Zetta passed away in 1985, and in 1993 Horrie moved to The Centaur RSL Aged Care Hostel in Caloundra where he subsequently passed away in 1997. He is survived by his three daughters, three granddaughters, four great grandchild and one great-great grandson.

 

July 2026 CTSN

On the cover: Statewide Roma Clay Target Club Junior Pathway Program Presentation.

Inside this month's edition

ACTA Chairman's Report
From the Desk of the EO
Review and Reform of the ACTA Hall of Fame
2026 NSW State Skeet Carnival
Taipan Perpetual Ladies Team Postal Competition Nomination
Roma CTC Junior Pathway Program Presentation
King’s Birthday Shoot Bendigo
Pink Day Breast Cancer Charity Shoot Raises $4105
Psychological Skills for Shooting
Bryan Manns on Target at Brewarrina
Waratah Notes
2026 QCTA State Trap Carnival
Team Announcement: ISSF Junior World Championships
Competition Results: SACTA, QCTA, TCTA, WACTA, NTCTA, VCTA, NSWCTA
ACTA Rules Supervisors 
Strong Turnout for Bendigo Compak
100 Target Handicap at Burdekin
WACTA Roamin’ Around
Queensland Western Zone Monthly Muster
Burdekin Come and Try Day
ACTA Trap AA Elite Shooters
From Our Archives – 71 Years Ago
Variety at Maryborough
ACTA Skeet AA Elite Shooters
Super Day at Bega
Shoot Calendar
ACTA New Members


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