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Major, The Earl of Winterton
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a three quarter portrait of an officer with a light moustache (turned towards the right of the image). Major (Edward Turnour), the Earl of Winterton served in the 9th Imperial Camel Corps of t...ART02735
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Major Thomas Willsallen
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an officer Major Thomas Willsallen, DSO, Commanding B Squadron, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Australian Expeditionary Force, with moustach...ART02784
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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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Mount Royston
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Maker: Hewett, Otho
Depicts a panoramic view of Mount Royston with a flag on top of the mount, a group of palms below the mount and a camp with tents at the right. Otho Hewett (1887- 1942) served with the 9th Light Horse...ART19632
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Mount Royston
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Maker: Hewett, Otho
Depicts a panoramic view of Mount Royston near Romani in Egypt with palms at the base of the mount and a cross on a smaller mount at the right. The topographical landscape includes rolling, barren hil...ART19640
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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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2nd Lieutenant Elliott Hannaford, 9th Light Horse
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an officer, 2nd Lieutenant Elliott Hannaford, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment; wearing a slouch hat with an emu plume.ART02769
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On the Sinai Peninsula
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Soldiers and camels crossing the Sinai Desert, Egypt.ART00218
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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
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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
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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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Sergeant William Martin
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
1340 Sergeant William Clarence Martin, 1st Australian Imperial Force (AIF), 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment, DCM and Bar, was born in Western Australia in 1890. He enlisted in the AIF in July 191...ART02183
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Sergeant William Martin on horseback
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
1340 Sergeant William Clarence Martin, 1st Australian Imperial Force (AIF), 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment, DCM and Bar, was born in Western Australia in 1890. He enlisted in the AIF in July 191...ART02184
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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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Squadron Sergeant Major Charles Greenway
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Sergeant Major Charles Greenway, DCM, MID, an infantryman in the 23rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces, but in 1916 transferred to the Camel Corps, with which he served in the Western Desert. Whe...ART06343
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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
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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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Tel el Saba
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Maker: Lambert, George
Although dated 11 March 1918, Lambert sketched at Tel el Saba on the 12th, the day after he had worked at Beersheba. It is five kilometers east of Beersheba and had been a crucial position to take bef...ART02681
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The bathing place, Jordan
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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
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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 incident for which Lieutenant F.H. McNamara was awarded the VC
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Lieutenant F H McNamara and Captain D W Rutherford were returning from an aerial bombing near Gaza on 20 March 1917 when Captain Rutherford was forced down. Although wounded and under heavy rifle fire...ART08007
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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 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 Pimple' Ghoraniyeh bridgehead
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Maker: Lambert, George
In April 1918 as Australian troops advanced towards Es Salt, a communication post was established at Ghoraniyeh on a small knoll rising from the Jordan Valley. From this vantage point of 150 feet, obs...ART02806
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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 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 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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Trooper New Zealand Mounted Regiment
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a sketch of a unidentified soldier, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, wearing shorts, a short sleeve shirt and a slouch hat, puggaree with three folds, its brim turned down, bandolier over sho...ART02767
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Trooper Walter White
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of a Trooper Walter R. White, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Australian Expeditionary Force, with a pipe in his mouth, wearing a slouch hat with...ART02782
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View from Inverness Battery "Hamisah" looking towards Ber Wasil Mageikra
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Maker: Hewett, Otho
Depicts a panoramic and topographical view of the desert, landscape, barren ground and flat hills towards Ber Wasil Mageikra in Egypt with the Turkish observation position evident on the horizon. The ...ART19634
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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
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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