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Photograph captioned: ‘The Commanding Officer inspects dinners’, at a training camp in Mena near Cairo, 1932. Lt Col J S Hughes MC, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, stands to the left of the image wearing service dress, pith sun helmet and Sam Browne belt. Another officer stands with his back to the camera watching soldiers who are doing something with some black buckets or large metal tubs. They are possible cleaning or dishing out food. Others can be seen in the background. From an album of 203 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.