NAM.2017-09-7-44-10

Photograph of H.T. ‘Somersetshire’ at dock in Egypt, 1930 (c). The ship carried the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards from Southampton to Egypt to undertake garrison duties. 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.