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Photograph showing the athletic team from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, Kasr-El-Nil barracks in Cairo, Egypt, 1931. They pose for the image in four rows. Most of the men are wearing white sports kit, with one Guardsman in uniform in the centre of the image, and four (including two officers) in uniform in the front row. They stand in front of the barracks. Image taken by Garrison Photographer S Sarkis. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Gdsn James,; Gdsn Davies; Gdsn Wigginton; L/Cpl Sexton Third Row: L/Cpl Treacher; Gdsn Peagram; Gdsn Wall; Gdsn Hudson; Gdsn Webb; Gdsn Wainwright; Gdsn Bailey; Gdsn Fermer; Gdsn Rigby Second Row: L/Sgt Pitt; Gdsn Mills; Gdsn Heath; Gdsn Wilkins; Gdsn Eldridge; L/Cpl Langford; L/Cpl Lee; L/Cpl Forsey; Gdsn Fergus; Gdsn Oldrey Front Row: L/Sgt Roberts; L/Sgt Davidson; D/Sgt W Povey; Capt & Adj William Henry Goschen; Lt Col John Salusbury Hughes MC; RSM R S Walker; L/Cpl Rawlings; Sgt Toon 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.
