Gezira Sporting Club - Old Pictures

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07/05/2017

Gezira Sporting Club - Old Pictures

04/05/2017

Various shots of the finals of the international lawn tennis championship taken at Gezira sporting club, Cairo.

CU. Pan, shot of the trophies set out on a table. LS. Spectators arriving at the central court. Several cut in shots of spectators watching the men's finals.

CU. Henri Cochet (France) and Robert Abdesselam (Egypt) competing in the men's singles. Various shots of Cochet and Abdesselam in play, Cochet won.

Various shots of the mixed doubles finals. G. P. Hughes and Mrs Campbell beat D. Mitic and A. M. Yorke.

Several shots of the crowd around the winners.

Note - date in the old record 19/03/1947.

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04/05/2017

06/02/2017

Gezira Club - Skating Ring In 1909
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Gezira Sporting Club - Old Pictures

05/01/2015

Sergeant JR (Ron) Richardson, He served in the Warwickshire Engineers during WW2. He was stationed in Egypt from 1942 to 1945.
Taken at Gezira Sporting Club in 1944.
We thank his daughter for sharing - Christine M. Richardson.
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Gezira Sporting Club - Old Pictures

24/12/2014

Gezira Sporting Club membership card 1997 1998



Gezira Sporting Club - Old Pictures

23/12/2014

Gezira Sporting Club in Cairo, Egypt. September 7 1943

Every man who flew the mission was awarded the Silver Star or higher. Service Crosses were presented to General Ent, Colonel Compton, Major Appold, Colonel Wood, Lieutenant Posey, and dozens of others. John Kane returned to Benghazi on August 3 with Sandman Robert Sternfels. Nine days after the mission his Medal of Honor was approved. On September 7 presented it to him at Gezira Sporting Club in , .



Gezira Sporting Club - Old Pictures

23/12/2014

Gezira Sporting Club, Cairo, Egypt - 1926.

James Wynn, born 29th March 1909, 7 Lorne Lane, North Berwick, son of Thomas Wynn, stonemason, and his wife Mary Farrell. James served a five year apprenticeship as a club-maker with James Watt at 1, Station Hill. He then joined Maynard Goldsmith in Switzerland, before following James H Kerr (listed above), another of James Watt's apprentices, as pro at the famous Gezira Sporting Club in Cairo. This was a popular club for the British garrison and Royal Air Force stationed in Egypt.
James Wynn won the Egyptian Open Championship in 1934, 1936, and 1937 after a 36 hole play-off when he set a new course record 67 at Gezira. He played in the Open Championship at Carnoustie in 1937 while visiting Scotland. Wynn remained in Egypt during WW2 and won the Egyptian Open for the fourth time in 1945 before moving to Heilopollis Sporting Club located seven miles north of the city. Jimmy was a great friend of Dai Rees who was stationed in Cairo during WW2. Wynn moved to Cape Town before being appointed pro at Alexander Country Club, East London, South Africa where he remained until the 1960s. Jimmy was often heard to say "It's a bu**er of a world we live in; but it's the bu**ers that live therein!". His cousin Sonny Burke from North Berwick was a golf pro in Corsica.


Gezira Sporting Club - Old Pictures