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Photograph of a sprinting race taken during a 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards sports day in Egypt, 1936. Six men wearing sports kit line up for the race as a crowd of other soldiers watch on. The starter, wearing shorts, a dark blazer and a straw boater hat is Lt V A P Budge. From an album containing 90 photographs compiled and presented by Lt-Col J R S Besly, Grenadier Guards, entitled: ‘Egypt 1936’, but covering the 2nd Battalion during 1935-1937.