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Study for dead trooper and detail of Turkish trench, Gallipoli (Pro patria)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a study of Turkish trench on Johnston's Jolly, with posed 'corpse' in front. The 'corpse' is 1269 Trooper William Henry Spruce, 7 Light Horse Regiment, wearing tunic, slouch hat, trousers and ...ART02857
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Study of Arbutus shrub, Gallipoli
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Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert was fascinated by the details of the landscape as much as the battlefield sites. On his arrival at Gallipoli in January 1919 he noted: "The chief local colour is made up of local scrub about 2...ART02860
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Sunrise Semakh, looking from the Sea of Galilee
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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
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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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Sunset, Lemnos
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a seascape with water and ships, and with buildings and hills on the distant shore, beneath a sunset. This work was painted during George Lambert's visit to Gallipoli in 1919 with the Australi...ART02853
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Sweet water canal and Lake Timsah, Ismailia
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a view of Lake Timsah from Ismailia, showing boats on the Sweet Water Canal in the foreground, gardens and buildings in the middle ground, and a blue lake in the distance.ART02859
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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 beach at Anzac
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
View of the beach at Anzac Cove, with Australian soldiers unloading supplies and setting up camp.ART02161
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The drover
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Depicts a group of German prisoners being escorted by an Australian soldier on horseback on the Somme battlefield, walking past a windmill on their way to prisoner of war camp in France. This paintin...ART00142
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The half limber
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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
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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 man with the donkey, Anzac 1915
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Arguably Australia's most famous soldier, 'Simpson' was neither a general nor a Victoria Cross recipient, but a stretcher bearer who served briefly in the nation's first major campaign. The painting d...ART00143
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The midday halt, Sinai
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Maker: McBey, James
Depicts the Australian Camel Corps resting and setting up camp in a desert area of Sinai. McBey was a painter and etcher. Born in Newburg, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1884, he travelled to Holland, Spa...ART03041
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The Nek, Walker's Ridge, site of the charge of the light horse; verso; Rest Gully, pack mule and the draught horse
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Maker: Lambert, George
View of the Nek from the lower slopes with bones littering no-man's-land, site of the charge at the Nek, an August 1915 offensive. Lambert wrote on 17 February 1919: "I was conducted by the 'Mission'...ART02856
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The Nile from Gezira
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape seen across the Nile from the island of Gezireh, with two small sailing boats (Felucca) on dark blue water. Palm trees and two animals stand on the bank, and a town covers the hill...ART02821
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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 Sea of Galilee, looking towards Semakh from Tiberias Road
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Maker: Lambert, George
George Lambert wrote to his wife in June 1919: '‘It is really very beautiful here the Sea or lake laps very pleasantly against the warm grey face of the edge about 10 to 20 feet high & bathing morning...ART02828
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The signing of the treaty of peace at Versailles, 28 June 1919
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Maker: Finnemore, Joseph
This work was painted to commemorate the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles. It captures a moment of the signing ceremony which took place in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. Fo...ART16770
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The Sinai Desert, July 1917
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Maker: McBey, James
Depicts the Australian Camel Corps travelling through the Sinai Desert. In the foreground is the skeleton of an animal such as a horse or camel. This work is from McBey's first Palestine set of etchin...ART03038
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The Somme Valley near Corbie
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Streeton has taken a position above the Somme Valley near Corbie, France, which provided the best view of an area heavily fought over by Australians in 1918. In April the Germans had advanced until th...ART03497