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Dick Parsons standing beside some of the trophies he won in rifle competitions
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Dick Parsons won the Kings Medal (shown above) at the 1949 and 1950 NRA annual rifle competitions in Bisley, Surrey
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Martyn Parsons (1 November 1910 – 7 June 1998) was a British Army marksman who played an important role developing and testing small arms and ammunition during the Second World War, and whose performance in post-war rifle competitions established him as one of the finest rifle marksmen in Britain.
Parsons was born in Bristol, and educated at Trent College, Derbyshire. His uncle was the architect Bertram Charles Hill. Also, one of his elder brothers was Ernest Geoffrey Parsons.