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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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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
Art
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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A native belle
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of the head and shoulders of a Palestinian woman with curly dark hair wearing a dark close-fitting head-dress and an open-necked dress (turned towards the left of the image).ART02685
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An old tomb of Jerusalem
Art
Maker: Ivers, T H
Depicts an old tomb in the Mohammedan Cemetery in Jerusalem with vegetation growing on the dome and a soldier standing in front with his hands in his pockets.ART02605
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Arab huts, Jericho
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with Arabs, huts and a goat in the foreground, palm and other trees in the middle ground and steep hills behind a plain in the distance.ART02709
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Arab Mare, Es Salt (The famous mare of Es Salt)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a Bedouin with a turban and blue and mauve clothes sits on a chestnut Arabian horse with four white feet and a decorated bridle and horse rug. A well-known and friendly sheikh sat for the arti...ART02682
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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)
Art
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, 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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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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Blue Bonnets over the border, Palestine
Art
Maker: McBey, James
Depicts a column of 52nd Division troops marching into Palestine with a military band playing bagpipes and drums at the foot of the Herodian colum. The band are most probably playing the march, 'Blue...ART50006
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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 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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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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Damascus Incident
Art
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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Dogfight over Palestine
Art
Maker: Betteridge, Allan Rupert
Depicts planes engaged in a Dog fight over Palestine. This image appeared on the cover of 'The Kia Ora Coo-ee: the magazine for the Anzacs in the Middle East' , second series, no.2, August 15th 1918. ...ART94728
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Doorway in Judea
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
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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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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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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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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Ghezireh, kit stores
Art
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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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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Jebel Saba, near Nalin
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts no-mans lands at Jebel Saba near Nalin. Lambert made a brief visit to the front line which was then at Nalin in the Judean Hills south of Jerusalem. The 7th Light Horse occupied small fortifie...ART02698
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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
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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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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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Moascar after the evacuation
Art
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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Mounted troops move through a defile in Palestine
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Traffic passes down a road in a narrow valley between hills with truck convoy, camel caravan led by an Arab, mounted light horsemen, a group of Turkish prisoners of war, Arab civilians, lorries, and a...ART11385
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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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Native quarters, Ismailia
Art
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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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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Ramleh
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
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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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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Spell during route march, Palestine
Art
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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Starlight, racer and troop horse
Art
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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Street in Bethlehem
Art
Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts a street scene in Bethlehem with shuttered doorways at street level and oriel window above. From Set 1 of a portfolio of 15 etchings based on sketches done on active service in Mesopotamia and...ART00073
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Street in Haifa
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
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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Sunrise Semakh, looking from the Sea of Galilee
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with buildings and trees, and blue hills in the background under a pale sky.ART02842
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Sunrise Semakh, looking towards Yarmuk Gorge
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
George Lambert described Semakh as: "... a railway-station of picturesque conglomeration of not more than usually dirty Arab huts, and a few tents and horses of the occupation people on the shore, sou...ART02834
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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 bathing place, Jordan
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Possibly painted close to Ghoraniyeh this painting shows Australian Light Horse units watering and swimming walers. In the early summer of 1918, Australian troops were stationed in the Jordan Valley. ...ART02810
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The half limber
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts two light horsemen, with their sleeves rolled up, sitting in a two wheeled cart which is drawn by two black horses (facing to the right of the image). The horses are harnessed, and a white fri...ART02814
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The last tents at Moascar
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
In March 1919, George Lambert described the Moascar camp as: "Miles and miles of tents and desert, thousands of sweating, sun-bronzed men and beautiful horses"(Lambert 1938, p. 79). On 20 July 1919 he...ART02819
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The plain, Jericho
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
A view of Jordan Valley, with Jordan River running through it. George Lambert was officially appointed Official War Artist for Australia in late 1917. Attached as a lieutenant to the AIF, who were the...ART02713
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The road to Aleppo
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts figures including an Arab on horseback, progressing along a road leading to buildings. There are hills in the background. Aleppo was the most northern city occupied by the Allied forces and wa...ART02830
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The valley of the Jordan, looking towards Jerusalem
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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
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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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Wadi bed between El Arish and Magdhaba
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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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Wady Hanein, Jewish colony country
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Maker: Lambert, George
Jewish colonies, sponsored by wealthy Jewish families such as the Rothschilds, were made up mainly of emigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe. Harassed by both Arabs and Turks, they welcomed the Brit...ART02700
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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