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State Library of New South Wales
Victory medal, 1914–1918 awarded to Hon Capt GW Lambert, AIF, c. 1920

Victory medal, 1914–1918 awarded to Hon Capt GW Lambert, AIF, c. 1920

R 344/4

Bronze with silk ribbon

When Lambert first arrived in Egypt in January 1918 he wrote ‘I am ridiculously happy. Already I have done three pieces of work and everywhere I look there are glorious pictures, magnificent men and real top-hole Australian horses.’

In G.W. Lambert, A.R.A. (Thirty years of an artist’s life) by Amy Lambert, 1938



The Victory Medal

Obverse: Winged figure of Victory

Reverse: inscribed 'The Great War for Civilization 1914–1919' enclosed by a laurel wreath 

Impressed around edge 'Hon. Capt. G.W. Lambert A.I.F.'

The ribbon has a ‘two rainbow’ design, with the violet from each rainbow on the outside edges moving through to a central red stripe where both rainbows meet.