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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