Officers Polo Team
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2017-09-7-45-69

Description

Photograph showing a Polo team made up of four officers from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. They pose for the image on horseback wearing polo kit and helmet and holding their polo mallets, Kasr-El-Nil barracks in Cairo, Egypt, 1931 (c). The ornate barracks buildings can be seen behind them, as can large trees and the River Nile. Image taken by Garrison Photographer S Sarkis. The four officers are named as (from left to right): Lieut P D Miller, Lt Edward H Goulburn, Major F A Magnay, Lieut C A S Cleaver 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.