Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 13
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on the right, is a bell tent that has been erected as the sleeping quarters of the Q.M. and several others of the C.R.Es staff: its canvas cone, except where accidentally camaflaged with purple shadows from a nearby fruit tree, glows white in the sunlight. Beyond the tent, at a spot almost in line with the bathing pond, some Australian soldiers, with sharp spades, are cutting away the thick growth of grass and buttercups to form a cricket pitch. This is being done so that the officers might be able to play there in the twilight after their evening dinner
There is, in the simple scene, a strange mixture of activity and repose, and there is also the beauty of Natures harmonious coloring and the contrast of light and shade that gives definition to form and brilliance of tone.
Added to all that the eye perceives there is the accompaniment