Balcony of troopers’ ward, 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia. Artist George Lambert
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial,
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ID number ART02815
Title Balcony of troopers’ ward, 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia
Collection Art
Object type Painting
Artist Lambert, George
Place made Egypt: Cairo, Abbassia
Date made 1919
Medium oil and pencil on wood panel
Measurement framed: 41.3 x 54.5 cm; unframed: 32 x 45.6 cm
Description
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 the bed (the way her veil is tied suggests that she is a volunteer nurse rather that a fully qualified nursing sister). The nurse is Mrs G. A. Aumuller. The Light Horse trooper is dressed in the standard royal-blue dress with a white shirt and a red neck tie issued to convalescents. He is standing coyly, holding his hat in his hand. This work was painted between mid-April and 25 May 1919 at Abbassia in Egypt, during the six weeks that Lambert was in hospital suffering from dysentery.
An Australian War Requiem 
Very interesting, -my grandfather Edward Morcan was in the 14th AGH WW1 Port Said Egypt as a male nurse/orderly. He met his wife a war bride called Marie Coplo a French girl while serving.