Moascar after the evacuation

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 July Lambert wrote from Moascar: "As you see by above address I am in my first Palestine possy when I joined up about 18 months or more back. Remounts are still here and many of my old pals but a lot of Desert has come back and a lot of tents have been folded and a lot of good & tried men have left for their home in Australia. It is not nice to be a left one but I like this place and am feeling fit and hopeful. This is practically my last month of service." A few days later on 20 July 1919 he wrote to his wife: "... the incinerators are throwing off long, low lines of blue smoke...".