AWM Collection Record: ART02780
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ID Number: | ART02780 |
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| Title: | Major Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson | ||
| Maker: | Lambert, George | ||
| Object type: | Drawing | ||
| Place made: | North Africa: Egypt, North Egypt, Moascar | ||
| Date made: | 17 January 1918 | ||
| Physical description: | penci on paperl | ||
| Measurements: | 30.4 cm x 19 cm | ||
| Summary: | Portrait of the renowned Australian poet "Banjo" Paterson who was in charge of the Australian Light Horse Remount Unit in Moascar when Lambert arrived there in 1918. Lambert had illustrated Paterson's poems for 'The Bulletin', an Australian magazine. He gave up law to become a journalist, and went to South Africa to report on the Boer War. When World War I broke out he sought work as a war correspondent, but failed to gain it. He then went to work driving an ambulance in France, and later became a Remount Officer with the Australian forces then in Egypt. | ||
| Copyright: | AWM copyright | ||
| Related subject: | Portraits | ||
| Related unit: | 1st Australian Imperial Force | ||
| Related place: | North Africa: Egypt; North Africa: Egypt, Frontier, Sinai; Ottoman Empire: Palestine; South Africa | ||
| Related conflict: | First World War, 1914-1918 |
Last-Modified: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:44:03 GMT
