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[BoldHighlander]

Men of the 7th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders on the march (North Africa).



"In June 1942 the 51st Highland Division moved by train to a variety of ports, and embarked for an unknown destination. They moved around Africa leaving Durban on the 16th July and disembarked on 14th August 1942 at the entrance to the Suez Canal at Port Tewfik.

In late August the Division moved into the Nile delta through Khatatba. Here they took up positions to defend the western approaches to Cairo with 152 Brigade on the Mena-Cairo road, 153 Brigade south of Mena and 154 Brigade west of Cairo covering the Nile barrage. At this time the enemy were no more than 50 miles west in the area of El Alamein and to its south."

[JSFMACLJR]

My uncle, kilted at a party at my grandparents' farm, Goshen, Kentucky. The photo was taken in the mid 1950's when the Bolshoi Ballet ( I believe ) visited Kentucky, hence the presence among the party-goers of some dancers. My grandparents were early patrons of the Louisville Ballet.