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Photograph of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards Cross-Country team, Egypt, 1936. They are the winners of the Egyptian Cross-Country Championship, with the individual winner being L/Sgt Green. The athletes pose of the image in sports kit alongside three non-commissioned officers wearing their tunics and forage caps in the middle and back rows. There are three officers sitting in the middle of the front row wearing riding breeches, forage caps and Sam Browne belts: Maj J A Prescott, Lt Col F A M Browning and Capt H R H Davies. In front of them are four silver trophies and a selection of medals. The image was taken by Official Photographer S. Sarkis, possibly at Mustapha Barracks, Alexandria, Egypt. From an album containing 90 photographs compiled and presented by Lt-Col J R S Besly, Grenadier Guards, entitled: ‘Egypt 1936’, but covering the 2nd Battalion during 1935-1937.