I came upon this one on Flickr that may be of interest: "Egypt Railways - Egyptian State Railways passenger train - The Second Battalion (Scots Guards) in 1938 Original photograph of men of the Second Battalion, Scots Guards in Egypt. The battalion sailed for Egypt on 19 November 1938, for what was planned to be a routine two year tour. Clearly visible is "2nd Scots Guards" on the kitbags and even the service number of one of the men, i.e. then Guardsman Alexander Sutherland, 2695331. Gdn Sutherland was subsequently transferred to the Royal Signals, and died in January 1943, by which time he was a L/Cpl with the Tenth Army Signals in Iraq ESR passenger coach Nr. 897 was third class, steel-bodied and built by an Italian manufacturer in 1931 to a Leeds Forge design. Such coaches were delivered to Egypt from various builders between 1915 and 1931 in up to a hundred units. Some sixty of these coaches had brake compartments (ESR diagrams 95-96 and 110-111) Behind Nr. 897 stands a similar vehicle. Next to it is another third class bogie coach, though with a wooden body, of the type supplied in 1907 and 1910 by Metropolitan and Gloucester (ESR diagrams 84, 85 and 102, 103 with brake compartment)" You can download the high res photo form here: Egypt Railways - Egyptian State Railways passenger train - The Second Battalion (Scots Guards) in 1938 The second photo is of Right Flank, 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards, from my grandfather's photos. Probably in Egypt. The third and fourth photo is his squad photo, 1938. I have no idea why I cut the photo into two parts. I think this is the right place to post these...If it is I have some more that I can add from his collection.
Please post as many as you like Nicola. Gdsn Sutherland has a 2 year good conduct stripe and by his army service number was a late 1935/early 1936 SG enlistment. Whilst his Scots Guards enlistment details will be recorded in the enlistment registers on FMP it’s highly likely that his service record will not be there as his records would’ve moved to War Office control from RHQ SG when he transferred to Royal Signals. On the outbreak of war many Battalion signallers from both 3rd CG & 2nd SG were transferred to duty with Royal Signals in Egypt. Steve
I may have slipped a few in that are not of the Scots Guards, please let me know if any need removing because I am struggling to see/recognise the uniforms...
The Jeff Caton photo is interesting. Geoffrey Caton, a Bombadier in the Royal Artillery, was indeed killed at Syracuse whilst serving with the SAS. KIA 10 Jul 43 aged 22. Regards Frank
Ah, I'm sorry I have probably added ones that should not be in this thread. If you would like to see more, I have posted the whole album here: My Grandfather's WW2 War Photos. There are quite a few more SAS and LRDG photos there.
Nicola if you prefer, I could leave a link and move your posts to create a new thread, not constrained by the Guards 'label'? 'Tagging' will always group content together anyway. I think your images deserve to be together with their own context but it's entirely up to you. Happy to leave them as they are. Edit: Moved from Guards' photos please Nicola, you can change the Thread title to whatever you think best. Let me know.