ART02780 - Major Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial
- ID number
- ART02780
- Title
- Major Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson
- Artist
- Lambert, George
- Object type
- Drawing
- Place made
- North Africa: Egypt, North Egypt, Moascar
- Date made
- 17 January 1918
- Medium
- pencil on paper
- Measurement
- sheet (irreg.): 30.4 x 19 cm
- Collection
- Art
- Description
- 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.
