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Photograph showing the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards winning Shooting teams from the Egyptian Command Small Arms Meeting, October 1931. Image probably taken at Kasr-El-Nil barracks in Cairo, Egypt. The men represent the winning teams of officers, warrant officers and young soldiers matches. They pose for the image in three rows in front of a building. They are all wearing hot weather khaki drill uniform with shorts and pith sun helmets. The soldiers in the middle and back rows hold their rifles whilst the officers sitting in the centre of the front row have a low table in front of them upon which sit their winning medals and trophies. Image taken by Garrison Photographer S Sarkis. They are named as (from left to right): Back Row: Guardsmen: Sutton, Shorthouse, Alexander, Day, Hilson Middle Row: Guardsmen: Hill, Winter, Killick, L/Sgt Brackenboro, Sgt Davies, Sgt Riches, Sgt Jones, L/Cpl Douglas, L/Cpl McNaught and Guardsman Lander Front Row: SIM Mantle, RSM Walker, Lieut C A S Cleaver, Capt G W Browning, Major Arthur F R Wiggins, Lieut & Adjt Edward H Goulburn, 2/Lieut D Fisher-Rowe, CSM Brenchley and CQM Sgt Robinson 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.