'Sports Day - Dry Clothes Race', Gold Coast Regiment, 1909 (c)

Photograph, West Africa, 1909 (c).

Men of the Gold Coast Regiment swim across a river in a dry clothes race. Several carry their uniforms on their head as they make their way across the river. Humid jungle conditions and wet clothing could cause irritable rashes of the skin, so it was essential that clothes were kept as dry as possible.

From an album of 214 photographs collected by Colonel O M Harris (DSO), Royal Artillery.