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Photograph showing a football 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 CSM Brenchley who is wearing his hot weather uniform with his pith sun helmet in his lap and a football on the ground by his feet. Image taken by Garrison Photographer S Sarkis. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Gdsn Eldridge, Gdsn Mills, Gdsn Taylor, Gdsn Exall, Gdsn Jones, Gdsn Eaglefield, Gdsn Horton Front Row: Sgt Reynolds, L/Sgt Roberts, CSM Brenchley, Drm Angiers, Gdsn Heath. 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.