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On guard
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Australian soldier standing sentry at an encampment. This work was produced as part of the artist's Syrian Campaign series. The artist writes, 'On guard - Typical scene at any Australian camp betwee...ART30051
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Palms and gardens, Richon
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a man in a red pot-like hat (called a tarboosh) and a group of Australian soldiers gathered near the Eagle Brewery Annex at Rishon le Zion. The scene is one of a lush oasis in the heat. with ...ART30043
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Port of Haifa
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts supply ships, service craft, barges and supply ships in the Port of Haifa, Palestine [now in Israel]. This drawing is part of a series produced about the Syria Campaign of 1941. The campaign i...ART30290
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Pyramids
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts the pyramids at Giza with the pyramids of Cheops [Khufu] in the foreground. Because Egypt was a protectorate of Britain until 1952, it was a major strategic base for the Allied forces during...ART30044
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Raider, Mersa Matruh
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Raider, Mersa Matruh - German raider over Mersa Matruh at dawn. Steel-helmeted troops in a slit trench. White puffs of smoke indicate anti-aircraft fire'.ART30083
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Road into the town, Mersa Matruh
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts view of the road leading into the town of Mersa Matruh in the Western Desert, Egypt. Mersa Mutrah was a key port during the conflict, and was taken by German commander Rommel in 1942. Follo...ART30085
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Route march
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a route march through the village of Gedera. The artist writes: ' This was produced as part of the artist's Syrian Campaign series. The campaign involved Australian troops, mostly from the 7...ART30078
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Route march
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a group of Australian soldiers, route march, Qastina, Palestine.ART30286
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Searchlight
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Searchlight - Final touches before evening manoeuvres. Time is about sunset'.ART30087
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Searchlight overhaul
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Search light overhaul - Late afternoon preparations for work at night. A felucca under sail is seen beyond an anti-aircraft gun in the distance'.ART30082
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Smoko
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts three unidentified soldiers having 'smoko', Palestine.ART30284
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Sound indicating equipment
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts Australian soldiers manning a very early prototype of a radar, except that it detects radio waves. The machine would detect the approach of an airplane, allowing troops to prepare for the adv...ART30288
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Spell during route march, Palestine
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a route march near Deir Suneid, with unidentified soldiers gathered in the shade of a tree. The artist wrote 'Under a venerable sycamore tree near Deir Suneid. These trees are famous from Gaz...ART30041
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Supply column, Haifa
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a convoy of trucks (a supply column) belonging to the Australian Imperial Force leaving Haifa (then in Palestine, now in Israel) for Syria. The broad panoramic sky combines with the sharp per...ART30068
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Syrian border
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
View of Ras en Naqoura, the promontory that forms the coastal point of definition between Syria and Palestine. Rounding the point at sea, are units of the British Fleet, out of Haifa Bay en route to b...ART30047
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The bathing beach, Mersa Matruh
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Lido Hotel near bathing beach. The artist writes, 'Troops bathing at Mersa Matruh. Their costumes are "birthday suits", the white "trunks" being the only portion unsunned. Intense colour of the wat...ART30064
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The town, Mersa Matruh
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
The town - The colourless town of Mersa Matruh from the hills on the outskirts near the railway yards. With the exception of a few renovated buildings, villas etc, the town is a mass of crumbling ruin...ART30080
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Through an olive grove
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Looking towards Acre, beyond the hills where a dust storm is blowing. The hull of the ill-fated "Patria" may be seen, lying on its side in the harbour, Hafia, Palestine.ART30060
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Tomahawk
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a Curtiss P-40B Tomahawk fighter in the foreground with two British airplanes in the middleground at Rosh Pinna, Palestine (now in Israel). The Syrian Campaign involved Australian troops, mos...ART30054
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Transport column
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Army transport in the desert. One of the transport columns was several miles long. "One is hardly visible because of a sandstorm. Transport often had to contend with big sand-drifts which made passage...ART30069
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Transport column
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Convoy of trucks and other vehicles crossing through the Sinai desert.ART30053
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Transport problems in Malaya
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a reconstructed view of transport problems in Malaya, and based on photographs. The artist wrote in a letter on 31 August 1942 of the work '...watercolour of an incident in Malaya...I have no...ART30101
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Troops bathing, Gaza Beach
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a beach scene at Gaza in Israeal during the Second World War. The guard looks longingly at his friends who are surfing or lazing on the beach. The refreshment tents, where voluntary workers se...ART30049
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Untitled [German prisoners]
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Incomplete sketch of German prisoners at Mersa Matruh, Egypt.ART30292
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Untitled [sketch of four men]
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Pencil sketch of four unidentified men.ART30293
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Water tower, Qastina
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a camouflaged water tower in the middle of the army encampment, and a Jewish settlement in the distance. Qastina was a town in the desert, 38 kilometres north east of Gaza, and now located i...ART30077
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White sand, Mersa Matruh
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Typical of Mersa Matruh colour. The sea and the beach unbelievebly dramatic - poster-like. A destroyer and an oil freighter are at anchor in the harbour, Mersa Matruh, Egypt.ART30052
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Wrecked ships, Tel Aviv
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts the hulks of two steamers, the Parita and the Tiger Hill with the seaport of Jaffa, Palestine (now Israel) in the background. This work is part of the Syrian campaign series that was produced ...ART30088