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Bill Gammage. Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (18 November 1879 – 30 August 1968), usually identified as C. E. W. Bean, was a historian and one of Australia's official war correspondents. He was editor and principal author of the 12-volume Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, and a primary advocate for establishing the ...
The boy was Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean. His experience at Waterloo was a foretaste of the labours that would occupy most of his adult life: the establishment of the Australian War Memorial and the writing of the official history of Australia during the First World War.
Australian War Memorial, A05381. Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (1879-1968), historian and journalist, was born on 18 November 1879 at Bathurst, New South Wales, eldest of three sons of Edwin Bean and his wife Lucy Madeline, née Butler, of Hobart Town. The Beans were an Imperial family.
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Charles Bean was Australia’s official war correspondent who later wrote and edited the twelve-volume Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 and founded the Australian War Memorial. No other Australian has been more influential than Bean in shaping the way the First World War is remembered and commemorated in Australia.
Dawn of the Legend - Charles Bean. Australian-born, though raised in Britain, Charles Bean returned home in 1904, aged 25. He became a newspaper writer and in 1909 he was sent to western New South Wales to write about the wool industry. Rural Australia inspired him, for here he believed were the distinctive virtues and values of the ideal ...
Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Australia’s official war correspondent in the Great War, was one such specimen -- the man ordained by time and circumstance to craft and shape the Anzac legend.
Charles Bean was so close to the action at Gallipoli that his reports from there and other battlefields have remained the most accurate.
