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| Accession Number | ART11391.041 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Sheet: 25.4 x 35.6 cm |
| Object type | Work on paper |
| Physical description | pencil, watercolour, pen & black ink |
| Maker |
Lambert, George |
| Place made | Ottoman Empire: Palestine, El Burj |
| Date made | c. March 1918 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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El Burj
Description
A landscape with dead trees, Turkish soldiers and dead animals. El Burj stands on a hill and fighting took place there during the bitter Judean winter, from 29 November to 1 December 1917, with the Australians defending their position against a battalion of German trained Turks. At the end of the fighting there were more than one hundred enemy dead. The inscription indicates that Lambert passed through this country and added the figures and fig trees from a photograph and description supplied by Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald McLaurin.
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