The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a bare, undulating landscape with the remains of animals in the foreground. There are two horses on top of the hill on the right of the image. In February 1918, Lambert visited the ANZAC Mounted Headquarters in the Jewish settlement town of Ayunkara (now called Richon le Zion). As ANZAC forces moved up from the south of Palestine towards Jerusalem in November of the previous year, Ayunkara had been the site of a significant action between New Zealand and Turkish forces. As a reminder that this is a battle site Lambert has contrasted the pastoral landscape with the bleached animal bones in the foreground.
Depicts a portrait of an Arabic women Lo'la Templeman, proprietress of Richon-le-Zion Hotel, with dark hair, parted in the centre and gathered behind the back of the neck.
Depicts a man in a red pot-like hat (called a tarboosh) and a group of Australian soldiers gathered near the Eagle Brewery Annex at Rishon le Zion. The scene is one of a lush oasis in the heat. with
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
Depicts a portrait of an officer Major Michael Bruxnor, DSO, 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment, Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Anzac Mounted Division
Sketch on a leaf torn from a small sketchpad, depicting a member of the Zion Mule Corps in full uniform standing in front of two donkeys, one of which is loaded up with transport crates. Benson indica
Depicts a camouflaged truck at Richon-le Zion Palestine (now in Israel). The artist wrote that the truck was depicted "in a setting of date palms - proving the effectiveness of Army camouflage". Ris