The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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.
Recto: A valley meanders from the top left to the bottom right of this Jordan Valley landscape. There are trees in the valley and terracing can be viewed to the right of the valley. In the lower centr
Depicts no-mans lands at Jebel Saba near Nalin. Lambert made a brief visit to the front line which was then at Nalin in the Judean Hills south of Jerusalem. The 7th Light Horse occupied small fortifie
A view of Jordan Valley, with Jordan River running through it. George Lambert was officially appointed Official War Artist for Australia in late 1917. Attached as a lieutenant to the AIF, who were the
A girl, accompanied by two younger children, is selling merchandise at the front line. Two British soldiers look at the wares in the girl's basket. There is a landscape with a tobacconist's shop, hous
A desert landscape with light horsemen dismounting and preparing for battle. Two soldiers place a stretcher into an ambulance wagon (in the centre right of the image). A dead white horse lies in the f
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 Mount
