Colonel WEP Bastard who founded the club in 1894, presented a cup in 1902 to celebrate the Coronation of King Edward VII.
The cup is inscribed :
“Presented by WEP Bastard Esq.
For the best team
REPRESENTING A CIVILIAN RIFLE CLUB
In Devon or Cornwall
Coronation Year – 1902”
The cup was won by and is still held by Yealmpton.

 Following the Government’s call in 1900, for more civilians to be taught to shoot, and for more rifle clubs to be formed, Colonel WEP Bastard was responsible for the foundation of at least four more clubs in the Yealmpton area. They included one at nearby Noss Mayo, called Revelstoke District Rifle Club.  Sadly, it no longer exists.

The Western Morning News of February 1908 reports on the Annual Prizegiving of Revelstoke District Rifle Club. Winners of various trophies are named, including the following:

”The wedding ring, presented by Col. Griffin was won by Mr A Axworthy, on condition that he married within the year, or handed back the ring, with a fine of half–a–crown.”
(Is that the original “Small-bore Wedding”?)

In 1911 the Hon. Mrs. Jean Crawford Bingham presented a cup to the club in memory of her late husband, a club member, who died in 1907.
He was the Honourable Albert Yelverton Bingham, a nephew of the 3rd Lord Lucan, the man who allegedly passed on the wrong order at the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Some time between 1903 and 1905, the ‘prehistoric caves’ on the Kitley Estate in Yealmpton were opened to the public to raise money for the Rifle Club.

This was reported in “A History of Yealmpton”, written in 1905 by the local Vicar Rev. H.J. Warner, in the following way:

“The Kitley Caves are now preserved under lock and key, and can only be explored by special permission of the owner.
On one occasion, when the caves were thrown open to the public at a small charge, in aid of the funds of the Yealmpton Rifle Club, a gentleman wired to a friend in the next parish ‘Yealmpton Caverns now open. Come at once.’
The message was delivered in this form: ‘Yealmpton Taverns now open. Come at once.’  He came with great haste, and, it is said, solved the doubt by visiting both!”

John Brown a local schoolteacher and later, headmaster, was the second Secretary of Yealmpton Rifle Club. In 1903 he also became the first Secretary and Treasurer of the “Western District Civilian Rifle Association”, which was the forerunner of the Plymouth & District Small-bore League.

The old nursery rhyme “Old Mother Hubbard” was written at Kitley about the housekeeper.

Old Mother Hubbard’s cottage still stands in the village but is now a Chinese Restaurant.