The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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...".
Lambert completed this painting between 9-10 July 1919 after his visit to Gallipoli with the Australian Historical Mission. The image relates to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Australian and Ne
In March 1919, George Lambert described the Moascar camp as: "Miles and miles of tents and desert, thousands of sweating, sun-bronzed men and beautiful horses"(Lambert 1938, p. 79). On 20 July 1919 he
Depicts a scene of horses and riders from the Remounts Units, Moascar, North Egypt, with a chestnut horse rearing in the foreground and a black horse bucking behind it. The remounts were horses and mu
Depicts the Remount Camp at Moascar, North Egypt. The view of the camp is from Major 'Banjo' Paterson's tent. Andrew Barton ('Banjo') Paterson, poet and journalist, was in charge of the Remounts Sect
Depicts a landscape at sunrise, with tents in silhouette. There are two bi-planes in the sky. This was one of the first oils George Lambert made after commencing his work as an official war artist. "M
Depicts a study of three horses. Left horse with head towards artist, centre horse rear quarters, right horse disemboweled, near hind leg in air. Lambert was in the Australian Remounts Section at Moas
