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A crash in the desert
Art
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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Adams, Arthur Talbot Scott, MM (Lieutenant. b.1885 - d.1968)
Private Record
Maker: Adams, Arthur Talbot Scott
Collection relating to service of Lieutenant Arthur Talbot Scott Adams MM, 12 Light Horse Regiment, Cairo and Palestine. Diaries mention Adams' personal health, activities of 12 Light Horse Regiment,...1DRL/0005
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Anderson, Cauldwell Hamilton (Lieutenant Colonel, b.1870 - d.?)
Private Record
Maker: Anderson, Cauldwell Hamilton
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Colonel Cauldwell Hamilton Anderson, Australian Army Medical Corps, Egypt, 1916. Collection includes typewritten report on Anderson's experiences with...1DRL/0032
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A water dump established by the Army near Wadi Nikhabir and supplied by pipeline. Troughs ...
Photograph
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)
Private Record
Maker: Ayliffe, Maurice
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 Australia House, London...1DRL/0076
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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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Backhouse, Nigel A'Beckett Talworth, (Chaplain Major, b.? - d.?)
Private Record
Maker: Backhouse, Nigel A'Beckett Talworth
detailed papers discuss the role of chaplains and the need for adequate army back-up. Includes narratives of the Light Horse actions at Beersheeba and Amman. Various monographs contain a detailed an...1DRL/0617
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Barada Gorge, looking down the road to Damascus
Art
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, 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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Bell, William John (Sergeant, b.1890 - d.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Bell, William John
Collection relating to service of 53 Sergeant William John Bell, 1 Light Horse Field Ambulance, ANZAC and Egypt, 1914-1917. Collection includes diary kept by Bell with movements and locations.1DRL/0110
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Burton, Francis James (Lieutenant, b.? - d.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Burton, Francis James
Collection relating to service of Lieutenant Francis James Burton, 4 Light Horse Regiment, Egypt, Gallipoli and Palestine, 1914-1917. Collection includes copies of letters written home to family in A...1DRL/0168
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Camel Corps at Magdhaba
Art
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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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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Cooper, Gordon Colin (Lance Corporal)
Private Record
Maker: Cooper, Gordon Colin
Collection relating to 475 Private Gordon Colin Cooper, 1 Australian Light Horse Regiment, Egypt and Palestine, 1916-1918. Typescript copies of diaries contain brief entries covering Cooper's time wi...2DRL/1114
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Cooper, Gordon Colin (Lance Corporal, b.1893 - d.1948)
Private Record
Maker: Cooper, Gordon Colin
Collection relating to the First World War service of 475 Private Gordon Colin Cooper, 1 Australian Light Horse Regiment, Egypt and Palestine, 1916-1918. Collection consists of three original diaries...1DRL/0211
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Creswell, Randolph William (Captain, b.? - d.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Creswell, Randolph William
Collection relating to service of Captain Randolph William Creswell, 3 ANZAC Camel Battalion, Egypt and Palestine, 1916-1917. Collection includes a letter (and a transcribed copy) written to his fath...1DRL/0225
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Es Salt raid
Art
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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Evans, Gilbert George Henry (Private)
Private Record
Maker: Evans, Gilbert George Henry
Collection relating to service of 148 Private Gilbert George Henry Evans, 21 Battalion, Egypt, Gallipoli, and France, 1915-1916. Collection includes letters written home to family in Australia.1DRL/0271
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Ferry Post, Ismailia
Art
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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Fitzsimmons, John Francis (Private)
Private Record
Maker: Fitzsimmons, John Francis
Collection relating to service of 2176 Private John Francis Fitzsimmons, 3 Light Horse Regiment, Palestine, 1918. Collection includes a letter written to a former employer, Mr Howden.1DRL/0292
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Front line Sangar, with the 7th Light Horse
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert made a brief visit to the front line, which in February 1918 passed through Nalin in the Judaean Hills, south of Jerusalem. He made two small oil studies as well as many pencil drawings of lig...ART02706
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Hill of the Good Samaritan (The road from Jerusalem to Jericho)
Art
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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Hudson, Ernest Alfred Knight, DSO (Major, b.1872 - d.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Ernest Alfred Knight
Collection relating to the service of Major Ernest Alfred Knight Hudson, DSO, Anzac Mounted Divisional HQ, Egypt, 1915-1918. Collection includes letters written by Hudson to his wife in Australia, wh...1DRL/0364
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Idriess, Ion Llewellyn (Trooper, b.1889 - d.1979)
Private Record
Maker: Idriess, Ion Llewellyn
Collection relating to service of 358 Trooper Ion Llewellyn Idriess, 5 Light Horse Regiment, AIF, Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, 1915-1918. The collection consists of eight original, handwritten diarie...1DRL/0373
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Jackson, Pelham Steane (Trooper, b.1889 - d.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Jackson, Pelham Steane
Collection relating to the service of 164 Trooper Pelham Steane Jackson, 11 Light Horse Regiment, AIF, Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine. Collection includes original letters and a diary written by Trooper...1DRL/0380
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Letters from Francis James Burton to his Family, 1914-1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Burton, Francis James
Photostat copies of letters relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Francis James Burton, 4th Light Horse Regiment. The original letters were written between 27 September 1914 and 10 Oc...RCDIG0000217
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Mackenzie, Arthur Arundel, MC (Captain, b.1891- d.1970)
Private Record
Maker: Mackenzie, Arthur Arundel
Collection relating to the service of Captain Arthur Arundel Mackenzie MC, Imperial Camel Corps and (later) 14 Light Horse Regiment, AIF, Egypt, Syria, 1918-1919. Collection consists of seven letters...1DRL/0446
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Magdhaba
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
George Lambert visited Magdhaba while en route to Cairo in 1918: "We proceeded on camels to Magdhaba, along the bed of the Wadi El Arish, a distance of some twenty odd miles, arriving at sundown. The ...ART09844
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Maygar, Leslie Cecil, VC, DSO, VD (Lieutenant Colonel, b.1868 - d.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Maygar, Leslie Cecil McLaurin, Archibald McGibbon
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Cecil Maygar, 8 Light Horse Regiment, Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, 1915-1917. Collection consists of nine letters written by Lieutenant...1DRL/0491
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Mills, Arthur James, DSO, VD (Lieutenant Colonel, b.1883 - d.1964)
Private Record
Maker: McLaurin, Archibald McGibbon Mills, Arthur James
Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur James Mills, DSO, VD, 1 Light Horse Regiment; 1st & 4th (Anzac) Battalions, Imperial Camel Corps; 15 Light Horse Regiment, 1915-1919, Eg...1DRL/0501
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Mount Meredith, Romani
Art
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
Art
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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PALESTINE, 1917. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF A CAMEL TRAIN TAKEN WHILST FLYING WITH LIEUTENANT REG ...
Photograph
Maker: Leckie, Harry Victor
PALESTINE, 1917. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF A CAMEL TRAIN TAKEN WHILST FLYING WITH LIEUTENANT REG BAILLIEU IN A BE2E AIRCRAFT OF THE AUSTRALIAN FLYING CORPS (AFC) ABOVE THE MEDITERRANEAN BETWEEN KILO. 143 A...P00588.005
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PALESTINE, C. 1918. A HALT FOR THE 3RD AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE IN THE DESERT IN PALESTINE. NOTE ...
Photograph
PALESTINE, C. 1918. A HALT FOR THE 3RD AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE IN THE DESERT IN PALESTINE. NOTE THE WIDE SAND TYRES ON THE WAGONS. (DONOR: A. WADDELL).J03159
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Probably PALESTINE. ?1917. A LONG COLUMN OF MOUNTED HORSEMEN, PROBABLY INCLUDING MEN OF THE 6TH ...
Photograph
Probably PALESTINE. ?1917. A LONG COLUMN OF MOUNTED HORSEMEN, PROBABLY INCLUDING MEN OF THE 6TH AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE, MOVE OUT ACROSS THE DESERT SAND.P00678.007
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Rafa from One-Tree Hill
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a view from south east of Hill 255. Rafa is on the border between Egypt and Palestine on the Gaza strip and was captured by the ANZAC Mounted Corps on 9 January 1917. The two graves marked in ...ART02693
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Romani
Art
Maker: Anderson, Wallace McCubbin, Louis Frederick Modelling Sub-section, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
The sculptor Wallace Anderson was chosen to work on 'Romani' as he had been to the battlefields to collect information and had served in the First World War. The diorama shows the Australian counter ...ART41024
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Romani, Mount Royston in background
Art
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
Art
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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Sunrise over the Dead Sea, from headquarters, Desert corps
Art
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
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The Anzacs (maquette for Desert Mounted Corps Memorial)
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Maker: Lambert, George Gregory, E J
Australian light horsemen depicted during the Sinai-Palestine campaign as a proposal for symbolic composition for a Desert Mounted Corps Memorial. The plasticene model of 1919 was cast into plaster by...ART12505
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The valley of the Jordan, looking towards Jerusalem
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
The valley of the River Jordan, looking towards Jerusalem, with horses and camels drinking at river. The Jordan Valley is part of the Great Rift Valley of Africa and has always been used as a route be...ART02711
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Turkish buildings by the wadi, at Magdhaba
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert painted this watercolour in mid March 1918 when he visited Magdhaba. Using the available shade at midday, George Lambert painted this from the hospital window opposite the Turkish buildings. T...ART02792
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Untitled [Palestine landscape]
Art
Maker: Hewett, Otho
Depicts a view of hilly desert terrain with buildings in the middle distance. The topographical and panoramic landscape includes a small group of buildings. Otho Hewett (1887- 1942) served with the 9t...ART19638
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Untitled [Palestine landscape]
Art
Maker: Hewett, Otho
Depicts a topographical and panoramic study of a desert landscape, with flat, undulating hills and tufts of grass. A small village is visible in the middle distance. Otho Hewett (1887- 1942) served wi...ART19644
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Wadi bed between El Arish and Magdhaba
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a sand hill landscape, a camel kneels while a soldier lies on the right of the flat stream bed in the foreground. The Wady El Arish marks the end of the desert sands of Sinai and the beginning...ART02679
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Wady bed at Magdhaba
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a view of Wadi el Arish with sand hills and mountains at Magdhaba. Lambert visited this area in March 1918 during his first tour of Palestine. Magdhaba was the scene of a battle on 23 December...ART02777
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WATER TROUGHS IN THE DESERT AT BIR EL ABD, IN SINAI.
Photograph
WATER TROUGHS IN THE DESERT AT BIR EL ABD, IN SINAI.J03191
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WATER TROUGHS IN THE DESERT IN PALESTINE. THE MAN IN THE SADDLE IS BRIGADIER-GENERAL COX. ...
Photograph
WATER TROUGHS IN THE DESERT IN PALESTINE. THE MAN IN THE SADDLE IS BRIGADIER-GENERAL COX. (DONATED BY MR. A. WADDELL.)J03150
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Ziza
Art
Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts an unusual event that occurred on the night of the 28th - 29th September 1918. After the capture of Amman on the 25 September, a detachment of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade was ordered south alo...ART12673