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Photograph showing the boxing team from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, Kasr-El-Nil barracks in Cairo, Egypt, 1931. They pose for the image in three rows. Most of the men are wearing their sports kit, with two men (one officer and one senior non-commissioned officer) in uniform in the front row. They stand in front of the barracks and there is a small table with five trophies on it at the front. Image taken by Garrison Photographer S Sarkis. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: L/Cpl Rowson; Gdsn Johnson; Buy Keen; Gdsn Jefferie; Boy Rose; Boy Skinner Middle Row: Gdsn Walton; Gdsn Clarke; Gdsn Parker; Gdsn Graham; Gdsn Laflin; Boy McClean; Gdsn Tooth; Gdsn Wilson; Boy Stewart Front Row: Dmr Ellis; L/Cpl Sheppard; L/Cpl Albon; D/Sgt W Bray DCM MM; Capt & Adj William Henry Goschen; Gdsn Alexander; Dmr Young; Dmr Oxley 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.