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Photograph captioned: ‘The Adjutant has his hands full’, showing the Adjutant (probably Capt E H Goulburn) with some trophies in his hands, Egypt, 1932 (c). A line of soldiers from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards stand to his left awaiting the prize-giving. To his right, Brig W H Gribbon stands with his swagger stick under his arm.A table in the foreground is laden with trophies, prizes and medals, and a large crowd of other soldiers can be seen in the background. From an album of 275 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.