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A crash in the desert
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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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Al Udeid Airbase, Qatar
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Maker: Miller, Lewis
Buildings and airforce camp at Al U Deid Qatar airbase, Al Udeid Airbase, Qatar. Lewis Miller was appointed official war artist in April 2003 to document Australia's involvement in the Second Gulf War...ART92072
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Anti-aircraft defences, Marsa Matruh
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts unidentified Australian soldiers standing with a Bren gun mounted on a tripod for anti-aircraft defence in the Western Desert during the North African campaign. Hele was serving as a private i...ART22868
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Artillery in the desert
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers and artillery in the desert in the Middle East.ART26902
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Artillery in the desert
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers and artillery in the desert in the Middle East.ART26899
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Artillery moving up in the desert
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers with artillery moving up in the desert in the Middle East.ART26903
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Attack by 2/24th Battalion, El Alamein at night, 25-26 October 1942
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Maker: Dargie, William
Attack on Fig Orchard, El Alamein campaign, Egypt 1942. 'C' Company of the 2/24th Battalion is seen under fire on its start line prior to the attack, with the 2/48th Battalion holding Trig 29 at left...ART27821
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Barada Gorge from road level
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Maker: Lambert, George
The main route from Damascus west to Beirut runs beside the Barada river through a steep gorge. On 30 September 1918 Australian troops had trapped and killed Turkish troops in Barada Gorge who were f...ART02818
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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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Barada Gorge, looking from Damascus
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Maker: Lambert, George
West of the Barada Gorge with the road and railway on the route through the eastern mountains to Syria. In 1926, some years after painting this sketch, George Lambert wrote to Charles Bean: "The origi...ART02845
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Barada Gorge, 30 September 1918
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Maker: Lambert, George
A section of the Barada Gorge, showing the road and railway route through the eastern mountains where fleeing Turkish troops and German machine-gunners were confronted by the 5th Australian Light Hors...ART09755
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Bardia (action leading to the fall of Post 11)
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
VX3511 Sergeant H B S 'Jo' Gullett, VX3495 V N Maloney, VX3497 Private H F Brockley, QX3118 Private F C Damm, all of 2/6th Btn 2 AIF, unidentified Australian and Italian soldiers. The first major camp...ART27576
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Battle of Romani, 4 August 1916
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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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Blown bridge, Libya
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Demolished by the retreating Italians on the road between Tobruk and Derna, Libya.ART27550
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Bren gun carrier
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A Bren gun carrier in North Africa during the Second World War.ART90271
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Camel Corps at Magdhaba
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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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Camels in the Persian Gulf
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Maker: Gardiner, Mal
Two camels strolling through the desert in the Persian Gulf.ART92095
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Camel train
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Loaded camel train heads into the desert from Gamli to Esani on the next stage of the supply lines progress, 1930. This is the second in a series of eight paintings accompanying the Palestine dioramas...ART91021
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Captured Italian guns, Tobruk
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts a captured Italian Ansaldo Cannone da 75/40 CA anti aircraft gun in emplacement at Tobruk, near Libya.ART22873
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Carriers and infantry
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Armoured personnel carriers and Australian infantry in the desert in the Middle East.ART26898
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Changing engines, 3 Squadron
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Maker: Norton, Frank
At a desert advanced landing ground close to the dividing wire, between Egypt and Libya, riggers of 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, prepare to install a new engine in a Tomahawk. A mobile cra...ART21006
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Dawn, the long patrol
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Maker: McBey, James
Depicts the Australian Camel Corps in the Middle Eastern Desert. Several soldiers are loading their camels and breaking up camp. This was like a preparatory sketch for ART03037ART50275
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Desert sandhills: sketch for Romani model
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the Romani sand hills for the Romani diorama. McCubbin was in Romani in 1920. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November...ART11427.002
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Desert sandhills: sketch for Romani model
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the Romani sand hills for the Romani diorama. McCubbin was in Romani in 1920. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November...ART11427.001
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Desert sandhills: sketch for Romani model
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the desert sandhillls around Romani for the Romani diorama. McCubbin was in Romani in 1920. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France ...ART11427.011
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Desert sandhills: sketch for Romani model
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts a sketch of desert sandhillls for the Romani diorama. Louis McCubbin was in Romani in 1920. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 w...ART11427.006
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Desert sandhills: sketch for Romani model
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts a sketch of the desert sand hills in Egypt for the Romani diorama. Louis McCubbin was in Romani in 1920. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from No...ART11427.010
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Desert sandhills: sketch for Romani model
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts a sketch of desert sand hills for the Romani diorama. Louis McCubbin was in Romani in 1920. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 w...ART11427.007
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Desert sandhills: sketch for Romani model
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts a sketch of the desert sand hills for Romani diorama. Louis McCubbin was in Romani in 1920. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 w...ART11427.009
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Desert sandhills: sketch for Romani model
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the desert sandhillls around Romani for the Romani diorama. Louis McCubbin was in Romani in 1920. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in ...ART11427.004
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Desert sandhills: sketch for Romani model
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts a sketch of desert sandhillls for the Romani diorama. Louis McCubbin was in Romani in 1920. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 w...ART11427.005
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Desert sandhills: sketch for Romani model
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the desert sand hills around Romani for the Romani diorama. McCubbin was in Romani in 1920. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France...ART11427.003
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Design for 'Dix'
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Maker: Fullwood, A. Henry
This drawing is one of two works that A Henry Fullwood submitted for the State Library of Victoria mural competition held in 1922. The mural design was one of 13 entrants by artists including Hilda Ri...ART92737
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Design for Omar
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Maker: Fullwood, A. Henry
This drawing is one of two works that A Henry Fullwood submitted for the State Library of Victoria mural competition held in 1922. The mural design was one of 13 entrants by artists including Hilda Ri...ART92736
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Digger walking
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian infantrymnan walking in the Western Desert in North Africa.ART21896
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'Dix' (cartoon for mural)
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
This drawing is one of two works that A Henry Fullwood submitted for the State Library of Victoria mural competition held in 1922. The mural design was one of 13 entrants by artists including Hilda Ri...ART19786
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Es Salt raid
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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
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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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Front line Sangar, with the 7th Light Horse
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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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Gaza, from Anzac Ridge
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Maker: Lambert, George
Throughout 1917, Australians were involved in three major battles for the town of Gaza on the coast of the Mediterranean. These were 26 March, 17 April and 2-7 November 1917. Lambert visited the site ...ART02701
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General William Bridges and his staff watching the manoeuvres of the 1st Australian Division in the desert in Egypt, March 1915
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Maker: Coates, George Meeson, Dora
Depicts a group portrait of officers of the Australian Imperial Force, 1st Australian Division in the desert in 1916, some standing and some seated at tables. Standing l-r: Colonel N R Howse VC, Colon...ART09425
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Guns moving up in the desert
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers moving guns in the desert in Libya.ART21887
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Headquarters, Desert Corps
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Maker: Lambert, George
This was painted about one-and-a-half miles to the east of Talaat ed Dumm, where General Chauvel had established this camp as his headquarters beside the Jericho road. Lambert stayed in the camp in Ma...ART02680
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Head study, light brown
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A small portrait bust of an unknown male figure. The sculpture was made from sands from the desert of El Alamein and bound together by a clear, thick wax. This portrait bust has been attributed to F...ART90018
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Hill of the Good Samaritan (The road from Jerusalem to Jericho)
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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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Holding him, drawing for cartoon in 'The Daily Telegraph'
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Maker: Mahony, Will
The 8th Army stopping Rommel at El Alamain in 1942 (represented by Rommel in handcuffs). Three major battles occurred around El Alamein between July and November 1942, and were the turning point of th...ART94321
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In the desert; verso: Cleaning weapons (left side of image)
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Maker: Churcher, Peter
19th page in a sketchbook of 42 pages of pencil drawings, diary entries and artist's notes. Desert sand hills near Dubai. Verso: Members of the Australian navy cleaning weapons, possibly on a ship in ...ART91791.019
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Into action
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Maker: Dargie, William
Painting of three unidentified male Australian soldiers going into action in the Middle East. This work was reproduced in the frontispiece of the 1942 Australian War Memorial publication 'Soldiering ...ART22232
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Magdhaba
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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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[Masaid]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
In the distance an Australian military camp with tents and guns are arranged into lines. In the middle ground, a mule drawn medical cart crosses the desert. In the foreground, camels shelter in the s...ART03020
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Mess parade, El Adem, Libya
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Maker: Norton, Frank
The desert cookhouse of No. 3 Squadron RAAF at El Adem, Libya. Ground crews, truck drivers and wireless operators queue up for their midday meal of bully beef, biscuits and a half mug of tea. At the f...ART21008
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Mosque Mohammed Ali
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Maker: Elliott, Dudley Marwood
A small sketch of the buildings of the Mohammad Ali mosque in Egypt. The drawing is by Lt. Dudley Marwood Elliott. He served with the 11th Battalion, Australian Infantry and died of wounds on 18 Sept...ART09447.003
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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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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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Night manoeuvres, Heliopolis, 1915
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Maker: Silas, Ellis
A moody evocation of Australian soldiers engaged in night manoeuvres in the Egyptian desert, near Heliopolis,1915.ART90838.006
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"Of course, as you know, three-fifths of the earth's surface is water." drawing for illustration in 'H.M.A.S. Mk II' 1943
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Sailor speaking to soldier in desert, three vehicles in background driving over sand dunes.ARTI03574
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Omar (cartoon for mural)
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
This drawing is one of two works that A Henry Fullwood submitted for the State Library of Victoria mural competition held in 1922. The mural design was one of 13 entrants by artists including Hilda Ri...ART19785
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Operation Bulimba (2/15th Battalion attack near Tel el Eisa, Egypt), September 1942
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Tel el Eisa; 2/15th Australian Infantry Battalion; QX5634 Corporal Horton Ford McLachlan (later Sergeant, DCM) 2/15 Btn 2 AIF, unidentified Australian and German soldiers; Operation, Battle of Alam el...ART27559
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25-pounder in action, Sollum
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicting a 25-pounder field gun in action near Sollum in the Western Desert, Egypt.ART26566
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25-pounder in action, Sollum
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Members of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force manning a 25 pounder gun in Sollum, Libya during the North African Campaign.ART28472
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Rafa from One-Tree Hill
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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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Raid on Carrier Hill (by a company of the 2/48th Battalion), 22 April 1941
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A retrospective representation of the raid on Carrier Hill during the North Africa campaign of the Second World War. Carrier Hill was a small feature about a thousand metres outside the Australian per...ART27551
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Romani
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch of the Romani area landscape. McCubbin was in Romani in 1920. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 with the 10th Field ...ART03140
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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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Self-portrait, drawing in Iraq
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Maker: Connor, Kevin
Man in a hat, the artist, Kevin Connor, stands in front of a desolate landscape, containing a tank and some rubbish.ART29752.051
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Servicing Rima II, Libya
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Maker: Norton, Frank
A typical Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk, "Rima II" is flown by Pilot Officer L. Spence of No. 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. (The name "Rima" dates to the last war when a fighter aircraft of that na...ART26051
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[study for Convoy pulled up on Derna Road]
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Convoy of trucks pulled up along the Derna road to, North Africa.ART90263
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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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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 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 Charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba, 1917
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Maker: Lambert, George
Late on 31 October 1917 the 4th Light Horse Brigade was ordered to gallop towards Beersheba and seize the town. Two regiments, the 4th and the 12th, made the charge. This bold and successful move was ...ART02811
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The Dead Sea, from the Mount of Olives
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape looking down from mountains to the blue water of the Dead Sea, with the Moabite Mountains in the distance. The Mount of Olives is on the outskirts of Jerusalem and overlooks the ci...ART02695
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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 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 Jericho
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Maker: Lambert, George
As Lambert moved along the road from Jerusalem towards Jericho in mid to late February 1918, he followed allied forces led by General Allenby as they advanced on Jericho. He was close to the headquart...ART02692
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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 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 stragglers
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Four servicemen are group in the right lower corner of the picture, one seated. They look out across a valley to the horizon. Frank Crozier worked initially as a decorator and clerk before enlisting i...ART00216
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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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Tough tactics
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Maker: Unknown Unknown Whitehead Morris (E) Ltd
This British Second World War poster was created to promote the film 'Tough Tactics', a film outlining the physical training techniques used in the Middle East School of Physical Training. The introdu...ARTV02513
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Training in the desert, Mena
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
After the men of the 1st Division, AIF, landed in Egypt in December 1914 they were given a period of training around Mena to prepare them for active service. The desert training was exceptionally inte...ART03607
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Transport column
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Convoy of trucks and other vehicles crossing through the Sinai desert.ART30053
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Trenches Beersheba, looking towards Tel el Saba
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Maker: Lambert, George
Beersheba, was a heavily fortified town 43 km from the Turkish bastion of Gaza, and the scene of an historic charge by the 4th Light Horse Brigade on 31 October 1917. Lambert visited there in March 19...ART02708
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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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Two figures carrying body
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Two Australian soldiers carrying a dead body across the desert in North Africa.ART90268
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Two men with a Bren gun
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts two unidentified soldiers with a Bren gun, Egypt.ART21882
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Untitled [Palestine landscape]
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Maker: Hewett, Otho
Depicts a view of hilly desert terrain with buildings in the middle distance. The topographical and panoramic landscape includes a small group of buildings. Otho Hewett (1887- 1942) served with the 9t...ART19638
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Untitled [Palestine landscape]
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Maker: Hewett, Otho
Depicts a topographical and panoramic study of a desert landscape, with flat, undulating hills and tufts of grass. A small village is visible in the middle distance. Otho Hewett (1887- 1942) served wi...ART19644
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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
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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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Y.M.C.A. : Ismailia ...
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Maker: Unknown National Committee Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia Unknown
Australian First World War poster issued by the National Committee (Army and Navy Department) of the Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia (YMCA). One of a series issued to encourage new su...ARTV05506
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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