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Photograph of several officers from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards talking in the large grounds of Kasr-El-Nil barracks, Cairo, 27th November 1930. The battalion had recently arrived in Egypt to undertake garrison duties. The officers are wearing service dress with peaked forage caps and some with their swords hanging from their Sam Browne belts. The group of four in the foreground are named as Maj Arthur F R Wiggins, Lt and QM F Speller, Lt Col Robert T K Auld, Welsh Guards (with his hands on his hips) and Lt Col John Salusbury Hughes MC. 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.