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A crash in the desert
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a desert landscape, with a small aeroplane on the ground and figure to the right of the plane. Aircraft such as this, possibly a BE12 or RE8, were used at the beginning of the war for reconnai...ART02684
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A DESERT YACHT, USED AT THE FLYING SCHOOL, MOASCAR, TO ACCUSTOM GRADUATES TO "WIND DIRECTION". ...
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A DESERT YACHT, USED AT THE FLYING SCHOOL, MOASCAR, TO ACCUSTOM GRADUATES TO "WIND DIRECTION". THIS YACHT WAS IN USE FOR AT LEAST SIX MONTHS FROM 1917-02, AND IT IS PROBABLE THAT IT WAS USED ALL THE T...J02974
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A horse drawn sand cart, with wide tyred wheels, for conveying sick and wounded men across the ...
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Maker: Unknown
A horse drawn sand cart, with wide tyred wheels, for conveying sick and wounded men across the desert. Two men are seated inside and one outside, all unidentified.C01003
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Ain Nukhailah, Jebel (Jabal) Hamrin, Mesopotamia. 1918-10. A row of canvas water tanks filled ...
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Ain Nukhailah, Jebel (Jabal) Hamrin, Mesopotamia. 1918-10. A row of canvas water tanks filled with fresh water by a pump connected to a well. The horse troughs were made ready for the cavalry brigades...P00562.136
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Australian Light Horseman using a sledge to transport goods and equipment over the heavy sand ...
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Maker: Unknown
Australian Light Horseman using a sledge to transport goods and equipment over the heavy sand near Romani.J01101
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AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSEMEN CAMPED IN AN OASIS NEAR ROMANI, 1916. THESE OASIS' OFFERED GREAT ...
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AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSEMEN CAMPED IN AN OASIS NEAR ROMANI, 1916. THESE OASIS' OFFERED GREAT CONCEALMENT FROM HOSTILE AIRCRAFT, AND GAVE GOOD SHADE TO THE TROOPS AND HORSES, A GREAT RELIEF FROM THE BURN...J02639
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A view of the city of Damascus, looking from above the Headquarters of the Desert Mounted Corps.
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Maker: Campbell, James Pinkerton
A view of the city of Damascus, looking from above the Headquarters of the Desert Mounted Corps.B00304
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A water dump established by the Army near Wadi Nikhabir and supplied by pipeline. Troughs ...
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Maker: Unknown
A water dump established by the Army near Wadi Nikhabir and supplied by pipeline. Troughs constructed near the dumps were used for watering horses.H00800
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Ayliffe, Maurice (Sapper, b.? - d.1918)
Digitised Collection
Maker: Ayliffe, Maurice
Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection relating to service of 2160A Private Maurice Ayliffe, 2 Field Squadron Engineers, Palestine, 1918. Collection includes letters to family in England. Copies made by Austra...AWM2021.7.51
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Barada Gorge from road level
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Maker: Lambert, George
The main route from Damascus west to Beirut runs beside the Barada river through a steep gorge. On 30 September 1918 Australian troops had trapped and killed Turkish troops in Barada Gorge who were f...ART02818
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Barada Gorge, looking down the road to Damascus
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Maker: Lambert, George
In June 1919 Lambert travelled to Barada Gorge north west of Damascus and where on 30 September 1918 a column of Turkish troops and transports, endeavouring to flee from Damascus, were intercepted by...ART02836
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Barada Gorge, looking from Damascus
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Maker: Lambert, George
West of the Barada Gorge with the road and railway on the route through the eastern mountains to Syria. In 1926, some years after painting this sketch, George Lambert wrote to Charles Bean: "The origi...ART02845
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Barada Gorge, 30 September 1918
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
A section of the Barada Gorge, showing the road and railway route through the eastern mountains where fleeing Turkish troops and German machine-gunners were confronted by the 5th Australian Light Hors...ART09755
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Battle of Romani, 4 August 1916
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
A desert landscape with light horsemen dismounting and preparing for battle. Two soldiers place a stretcher into an ambulance wagon (in the centre right of the image). A dead white horse lies in the f...ART09556
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Brigadier-General Granville de Laune Ryrie, Commanding Officer (CO) of the 2nd Light Horse ...
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Brigadier-General Granville de Laune Ryrie, Commanding Officer (CO) of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade, smoking a pipe whilst mounted on his favourite horse, ‘Plain Bill’. The horse was exceptionally stur...P01778.009
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Camel Corps at Magdhaba
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts the Camel Corp 'Cameliers' at the point where they were dismounting to advance on foot at Magdhaba. The Imperial Camel Corps Brigade was raised from the Australian, New Zealand and British Arm...ART09230
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Camels loaded with fantasses (water tanks). This was the usual method of carrying water across ...
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Maker: Unknown
Camels loaded with fantasses (water tanks). This was the usual method of carrying water across the desert. This is one half of a stereo image. The full image is held at B02415A.B02415
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CAMELS OF THE 3RD A.L.H. FIELD AMBULANCE RESTING BESIDE AN OASIS NEAR KATIA, DURING THE DESERT ...
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CAMELS OF THE 3RD A.L.H. FIELD AMBULANCE RESTING BESIDE AN OASIS NEAR KATIA, DURING THE DESERT CAMPAIGN IN 1916. (DONATED BY MR. R. SILLETT.)J02622
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Camel train
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Loaded camel train heads into the desert from Gamli to Esani on the next stage of the supply lines progress, 1930. This is the second in a series of eight paintings accompanying the Palestine dioramas...ART91021
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
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Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
In the summer of 1919, 19486 Sapper William B Nelson, of D Troop, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, taking photos of a group of desert bedouins, in their encampment on the outskirts of Baghdad.J01994