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Photograph captioned: ‘Group of Egyptian Command Golf Championship’, probably taken in Cairo, 1931 (c). Page loose in album. It shows 13 men and Lady Barbara Strickland, the wife of Gen Sir Edward Peter Strickland (General Officer Commanding the British Troops in Egypt) posing for the photograph on the grass. They are wearing various elements of civilian dress including some wearing Plus Fours. Several of them are holding sporting trophies or tankards. Image relates to the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. 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.