NAM.2017-09-7-45-165

Photograph taken from on board the ‘Tuscania’ showing RSM R S Walker, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards (left) and his compatriot RSM F R Himing, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards (right) posing for the image, possibly Port Said, Egypt, 1932-33 (c). Other large ships can be seen in the water behind them. The soldiers, including two Coldstream Guards soldiers relax behind them as they watch the other boats in the port. The 1st Bn Coldstream Guards went to Egypt in 1933 and relieved the 1st Bn Grenadier Guards who returned to England. 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.