Moascar, from Major 'Banjo' Paterson's tent

Depicts the Remount Camp at Moascar, North Egypt. The view of the camp is from Major 'Banjo' Paterson's tent. Andrew Barton ('Banjo') Paterson, poet and journalist, was in charge of the Remounts Section, where the horses and mules from Australia were broken in and trained. Paterson and Lambert had known each other in Australia and were both expert horse riders. When Lambert arrived in Egypt in early 1918 he wrote: "Already I have done three pieces of work & everywhere I look there are glorious pictures. Magnificent men & real top hole Australian horses. At night purple blue sky & minky desert & all sorts of sounds including creepy jackals. . . The glorious warmth is really too lovely though at nights it's close to freezing. One realizes that the whole of the British empire is at it in places like this - every kind of animal & man & dust & stinks all arrange themselves with an ease which to a newcomer seems bound to succeed, & one is inclined to think that we can organize after all. . . I'm here at last & cutting out the sense of the big gap between us which recurs when I am not working or riding I am ridiculously happy."