The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a two-storey yellow rendered building with green shuttered windows and a balcony of Moorish design. Men in standard convalescent dress of blue trousers, white shirts and red ties (and the pencil outline of a nurse) stand on the outside green staircase, and another two men gather under the trees below. The Egyptian Army Barracks at Abbassia (on the outskirts of Cairo) were used as an Australian hospital from August 1915 until 1919. As well as war injuries, there were a number of diseases associated with the region, particularly malaria, dysentery and pneumonia, which kept the hospitals overworked throughout the Sinai and Palestine campaigns (Butler).
An unidentified Light Horse trooper is featured in a balcony ward of 14 Australian General Hospital. There is a bed by the window screened with portable screens and a nurse is standing at the foot of
Depicts a portrait of a patient reclining on a pillow showing his left side profile. His pillow and bedclothes are lightly sketched. While ill in Abassia in 1919, Lambert continued to use his time pro
The image is of two men operating machinery. They are located on a log bridge. They wear khaki coloured shirts with short sleeves, trousers and hats. A truck is parked beneath them, onto whose tray
A white camel, wearing a bridle and saddle kneels facing the left of the image. It carries various articles of equipment on its back including a white fodder bag and a blue blanket. A sandhill in the
Depicts a view of the courtyard at Bertangles, where AIF Corps headquarters were located, with despatch riders on motorcycles arriving and leaving, and soldiers, chickens and horses throughout the cou
Depicts the entrance to the courtyard at Bertangles where Australian Corps headquarters was situated. there is a sentry on guard at the gate, two soldiers conversing to the left of the gate and a sold
