photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.2005-08-19-6
Description
Photograph of fourteen men showing the tug-of-war team of 1st Bn, The Middlesex Regiment in Moascar, Egypt, 1934. Photograph taken by S Sarkis, Garrison photographer, Cairo Brigade Area. Pte Johns is seated in the front row, second from the left. With him is L/Cpl Adams, Pte Berry, L/Cpl Sargent, L/Cpl Gadsden, Pte Ledain, L/Cpl McDowell, Cpl Whichello, Pte Wilson, 2/Lt Whiting, Sgt Hull, L/Cpl Tatt, Cpl Donegar and Pte Marling. One of seven photographs which belonged to Pte John Johns, 1st Bn The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own), 1928 (c)-1935. Pte Johns was stationed in Cairo with the regiment on the 1930s.