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A deserted oasis
Art
Maker: McBey, James
Depicts soldiers and camels from the Australian Camel Corps camped at an oasis that has been deserted by its original inhabitants. In the background are buildings that have fallen into disrepair. This...ART03036
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A favourite charger with groom, Anzac Mounted Division
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts Private George Shelton Lambert, a groom with 11th Light Horse Regiment, holding a troop horse. Despite the artist's title, 'A favourite charger' [i.e. officer's horse], this horse wears the di...ART02837
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Air Vice-Marshal Frank McNamara
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Maker: Honisett, Ray
Depicts a montage portrait of First World War and Second World War No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corp and No. 5 Flying Training School; Air Vice Marshal Frank Hubert McNamara, VC, CBE, RAAF. The wo...ART29094
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Auja crossing, Jordan
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with river. Low wooden bridge resting on pontoons. Two horses crossing bridge. White mule with head down right. Mounted horsemen on bank extreme right. Horses in distance centre, t...ART02691
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Australian troop horse, full marching order
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Maker: Lambert, George
Study of a bay troop horse wearing a 1902 pattern bridle, 1912 Universal Pattern saddle, and brown saddle blanket. Attached to the saddle is a pair of saddle wallets, greatcoat, rolled grey blanket, a...ART02689
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Ayunkara (Richon le Zion)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a bare, undulating landscape with the remains of animals in the foreground. There are two horses on top of the hill on the right of the image. In February 1918, Lambert visited the ANZAC Mount...ART02697
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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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Boom, racer and troop horse
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a bay horse "Boom", Australian Light Horse unit facing right, his tail slightly raised and wearing a headstall.ART02805
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Camel cacolet
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts a camel with a cacolet on his back which is used for carrying sick or wounded men, being led by an Arab on foot. Henry Gullett stated 'It would be scarcely possible to devise a more acute tort...ART00217
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Colour note near Mena (1st expedition)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Early in 1915 the Australian forces had camped on the outskirts of Cairo, on the sandy flats at Mena, near the pyramids. Lambert was interested in the local colour and light and in this work concentr...ART02848
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Corporal Edward Picton
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Corporal Edward Benjamin Picton, DCM, MM, 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment (later also NX12136, 1st Railway Construction Coy, 2 AIF) 1928.ART11354
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Damascus Incident
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts the 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade that was ordered to cross the gorge and cut the only other available escape route for the Turkish troops from Damascus, the road to Homs. The direct rout...ART03647
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Doorway in Judea
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts a section of wall in Judea, with a large open doorway slightly above street level, another smaller doorway is slightly below street level, and a window above the lower door. A civilian is abou...ART00083
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El Arish
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Maker: Lambert, George
El Arish was a large village on the coastal route across the Sinai desert about forty-five miles south west of Gaza. In 1916 El Arish had been under Turkish rule for two years,and was captured by the ...ART02677
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El Burj
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Maker: Lambert, George
A landscape with dead trees, Turkish soldiers and dead animals. El Burj stands on a hill and fighting took place there during the bitter Judean winter, from 29 November to 1 December 1917, with the Au...ART11391.041
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Entrance to Officers' Mess, Mrs Chisholms' canteen, Kantara 1918
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Maker: Ivers, T H
Depicts the entrance to the Officers Mess at Mrs Chisholms canteen, Kantara, Suez Canal. This expanded to include dormitories and dining-rooms and eventually had the capacity for handling thousand of ...ART02599
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Es Salt raid
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Maker: Lambert, George
Light horsemen gallop across rough ground (from left to right of the image). Two horses fall. Steep hills rise behind. This painting depicts the action east of Jordan on 30 April 1918, when the Anzac ...ART02872
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Ferry Post, Ismailia
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape showing a bay with a dhow and feluccas, and various buildings and tents on the hills on the other side of the bay. There is a camel in the left foreground. Ferry Post was the Camel...ART02715
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Ford over the Jordan at Jisr Benat Yakub
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a scene of a ford over the Jordan River at Jisr Benat Yakub. A close up view of an Arab seated with goats and a donkey beneath a dark green sprawling tree, beside the Jordan river. To the left...ART02841
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Gaza, from Anzac Ridge
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Maker: Lambert, George
Throughout 1917, Australians were involved in three major battles for the town of Gaza on the coast of the Mediterranean. These were 26 March, 17 April and 2-7 November 1917. Lambert visited the site ...ART02701
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Ghezireh, kit stores
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts buildings surrounded by trees and flowering shrubs, with a palm tree (on the left of the image). Lambert stayed at the Ghezireh kit-stores while waiting to embark for England in 1918.ART02809
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Ghoraniyeh bridgehead, Jordan
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Maker: Lambert, George
Close to Jericho, Ghoraniyeh had been the scene of heavy fighting only a month before George Lambert arrived in May 1918. The possession of the lower valley was essential to any future offensive. Chau...ART02808
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Hill of the Good Samaritan (The road from Jerusalem to Jericho)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a road, with Arabs and camels passing through a hilly landscape. A valley with tents in the background. A small encampment can be seen at the base of the hill. This scene is near the Inn of th...ART02678
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Jerusalem, from below the Mount of Olives
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Maker: Lambert, George
A landscape with a walled city with mosques in the background. A light horsemen sits under a tree in the left foreground and his horse waits beside him. There are low trees in the middle distance. The...ART02699
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Jerusalem from the top of the Dung Gate; verso: First geometric design for 'The Nek'
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Maker: Lambert, George
A panoramic townscape with dark green vegetation in the foreground. Cypress trees and mosques are prominent on the skyline. The top of the city wall appears on the bottom right. The Dung Gate was a ma...ART02855
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Jisr Benat Yakub: bridge repaired by Australian Unit
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a stone bridge over a brown river under a blue sky with clouds. The bridge has been repaired with a wooden construction. An Arab on a mule cross the bridge and a naked man squats on the stones...ART02854
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Khurbet Sihan
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Maker: Lambert, George
Khurbet Sihan is south-east of Gaza and a site of fighting during the first and second battles for Gaza in 1917. Major Charles Stodart, who had fought in the second of these battles of 19 April 1917, ...ART02707
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Light horse company on a hill
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape of rocky hills with green vegetation and a clump of cypresses. Mounted light horsemen descend the hills. A small picture showing light horse coming down a hill in Palestine, across...ART11386
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Light horseman, mounted
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts an Australian Light Horseman, wearing his uniform with rifle, bandolier, haversack, bayonet attached, leggings including his slouch hat with an emu plume, seated as if mounted on a horse (faci...ART11387
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Moascar after the evacuation
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Maker: Lambert, George
A desert landscape with a low horizon, painted in the late afternoon beneath a hazy and probably smokey sky, with an incinerator in the right foreground and building poles in the middle ground. On 1 ...ART02843
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Mount Meredith, Romani
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a Camel wearing a saddle and bridle in front of a sandy ridge. This work was painted on 18 March 1918 in the Romani area. Mount Meredith was named after Brigadier General J B Meredith, command...ART02694
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Mouth of the Wadi el Arish
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Maker: Lambert, George
A sandy desert scene with an avenue of tall palm trees in the left foreground, white tents, troops, a horse and a mosque in the middle ground, and a narrow stretch of dark blue - probably the Mediterr...ART02741
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Native quarters, Ismailia
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a town with flat roofed buildings, with a white road in the foreground, a palm tree to the right. Ismailia, a town established by the Suez Canal company in 1863, it is situated on the Suez Can...ART02683
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Ramleh
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with a village on the coastal plains, captured from the Turks and later the site of the General Headquarters of the Expeditionary Force.ART02702
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Raw-boned bush horse, full marching order
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a profile study of a troop horse with a shaggy mane (facing the left of the image), wearing a bridle, bandolier around neck, wallet, fodder bag, rolled blanket, rolled greatcoat and groundshe...ART02758
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'Rhotatahur', Troop Horse and Hurdler, Anzac Mounted Division
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a horseman (facing to the right of the image) holds 'Rhotatahur' Troop horse (facing to the left of the image) by its bridle with a snaffle bit, with a second horseman (on the right of the hor...ART02813
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Romani, Mount Royston in background
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Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert was fascinated with the desert; its changing patterns and sharp contrasts. He advised other artists; 'Leave your pigments at home. Approach nature with a simple palette but an extravagant love...ART02704
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Sand cart and team, Kantara
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a two-wheeled ambulance cart with a red cross canvas cover , flying a red cross flag. The cart is drawn by four bay draught horses, two riders (facing the right of the image and away from the ...ART02812
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Semakh, looking from Yarmuk
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a valley with a lake, with hills in the distance, viewed from above. A light horseman sits on a rise overlooking the valley, an Arab rides a donkey down the slope and a grey horse stands besi...ART02840
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Sketch for intended Light Horse memorial, Canberra
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a pedestal which supports a monument of four figures: a seated Sikh, a British soldier on horseback, a light horseman with a pipe on horseback and leaning forward on the horse, and a camelier ...ART19327
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Starlight, racer and troop horse
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Maker: Lambert, George
A profile study of a brown troop horse facing the left of the image and wearing full marching order, bridle with reins over his neck. Light Horse unit; 'Starlight', full marching order with mess tin,...ART02705
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Strange signals
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Maker: McBey, James
Depicts two soldiers on camel back riding in the Sinai Desert to the left of image. These soldiers are from the Imperial Camel Corps. The ICC was formed in January 1916 in order to deal with the revol...ART03040
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Street in Haifa
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Maker: Ivers, T H
Depicts a street of Haifa with an Australian soldier amongst the local inhabitants. Haifa is a sea port and located below Mount Camel.ART02601
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Street in Jerusalem
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts a street scene in Jerusalem with two locals walking through the streets and houses with arched windows intheir upper storey. From Set 1 of a portfolio of 15 etchings based on sketches done on...ART00077
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Street in Jerusalem
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts a street scene in Jerusalem with people walking through the archways that are above the streets. From Set 3 of a portfolio of 15 etchings based on sketches done on active service in Mesopotami...ART00086
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1st Signal Squadron Lines, Kantara
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Maker: Ivers, T H
Depicts army tents along both sides, there are, horse brushes, bread bag, mounted service mess tins, bayonet hanging in front of a tent.ART02630
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Study of camels, and men of Camel Corps, Ferry Post
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Maker: Lambert, George
A group of four Australian soldiers and camels at Ferry Post, Ismailia. Three are mounted and the fourth is leading his camel.ART02687
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Sunrise over the Dead Sea, from headquarters, Desert corps
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with dark undulating hills in the foreground, the blue water of the Dead Sea in the middle ground, and the mauve mountains in the distance. George Lambert painted this in February ...ART02807