The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a group of German prisoners being escorted by an Australian soldier on horseback on the Somme battlefield, walking past a windmill on their way to prisoner of war camp in France. This painting was one of several large compositions commissioned by the Australian government after the First World War, when Benson was working with several other artists in St. John's Wood, London. When published in 'Australian Chivalry' (1933) the painting was accompanied by the following text; 'A custom of rural Australia transported to the battlefield of the Western Front is expressed in this painting, which shows a light horseman in charge of a party of German prisoners. The comparatively few men of the Australian Light Horse who served in France... were actually used for police and traffic control duties. Out of their habit of trailing along on horseback behind a flock or herd in Australia, the men automatically reverted to this deeply ingrained practice when detailed to escort parties of prisoners to the rear. It thus became a common sight to see light horsemen lazily bringing up the rear, perhaps whistling quietly, on his slow paced mount, with his party of captive charges strung out raggedly ahead'.
Depicts an Australian Light Horseman, wearing his uniform with rifle, bandolier, haversack, bayonet attached, leggings including his slouch hat with an emu plume, seated as if mounted on a horse (faci
Figure study for 'Anzac, the landing 1915' showing a soldier in climbing position. When he was back in his studio in London, Lambert posed his son Maurice and an Italian model in attitudes of climbi
This sketch depicts an Australian light horse moving to the left in the saddle in response to the movement of the horse carrying him. This is possibly a study for Lambert's painting of 'The charge of
Presumably a scene at the Light Horse camp at Moascar, of horses at a long brown trough. One horse rears. There are various figures, including several on horseback and one in Arab clothing. Verso imag
Possibly painted close to Ghoraniyeh this painting shows Australian Light Horse units watering and swimming walers. In the early summer of 1918, Australian troops were stationed in the Jordan Valley.
This painting shows three men from the 1st Australian Imperial Forces near a tent with sacks of chaff. In the background are several horses under thatched-roof shelters.
