NAM.2017-09-7-44-1

Photograph of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, shaking hands with some women at Warley Barracks, Essex, in his capacity as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, 1930 (c). He wears service dress including sword hanging from his sword belt, and is accompanied by two officers. The women are possibly wives of soldiers in the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. They stand on grass in front of one of the barrack buildings. Others can be seen in the background. From an album of 275 photographs relating mainly to the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards in Egypt 1930-32’; with images of sports teams, group images at Kasr-El-Nil barracks in Cairo, local people and battalion transport. Many were taken by the Garrison photographer S Sarkis.