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Photograph showing a hockey team from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards posing for the image probably at Kasr-El-Nil barracks, Cairo, 1931 (c), They stand or sit in two rows in front of a barrack building. They are all in sports kits except two men at either end who are wearing service dress and holding their pith sun helmets. Image taken by Garrison Photographer S Sarkis. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: A/S/Sgt T Whittaker (RAOC), WOII LeGrys (AEC), Gdsn Thrift, Gdsn Anker, L/Sgt Hamer, Gdsn Lacey, Gdsn Ward, L/Cpl Rowson Front Row: L/Cpl Broome, Sergt Toon, Capt Rev Cethin-Jones, Capt G W Browning, Capt P J M Ellison, L/Sgt Firth, L/Cpl Douglas 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.