by Peter Rees
See Stephen Ellis, ‘Racism in Australia’, The Australian Quarterly, September 1972, for analysis of the change in Bean’s position on the issue of race.
For Bean’s references to Aborigines, see The Dreadnought of the Darling, pp. 178–80 and 182–8.
47—Back among old Diggers
For Effie’s account, see Denis Winter, Making the Legend: the War Writings of C.E.W. Bean, University of Queensland Press, 1992, p. 18.
The SMH published the statement by White on 9 June 1919.
For Bean’s statement on accuracy, see AWM38 3DRL 7953/6, part 1.
Ted le Couteur was privately interviewed.
Bean’s comment about the honorarium was drawn from his private diary, as were his comments about his financial situation and Jack’s help, and his mother’s comment about her hopes for her son.
Bean’s account of hearing Percival speak was published in The SMH, 20 August 1912.
For background to Treloar’s death and the issues around his replacement, see McKernan, Here is Their Spirit, pp. 200–7.
Background to Bean’s refusal of a knighthood on two occasions was drawn from family member Pam Thompson, and McCarthy, Gallipoli to the Somme, p. 390.
For Bean’s letter declining the offer, see McCarthy, Gallipoli to the Somme, and Bazley files, AWM38 3DRL/3520.
Bean referred to his eightieth birthday celebration in his private diary.
For the Brentwood history correspondence, see letter 27 August 1963; AWM PR 82/131.
For Bean’s last letter to Effie, see Papers of Charles and Ethel Bean, AWM PROO283, Series 2/1, Folio 1.
For Bazley’s letter to Effie, see AWM38 3DRL 3250, folder 25.
The criticism about the lack of recognition of Bean came from Lieutenant H.V. Howe, AWM38 3DRL 3250, folder 25.
Epilogue
For Phillip Knightley’s comments, see The First Casualty, p. 110.
Humphrey McQueen’s observations are sourced from his book Temper Democratic, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, SA, 1998; p. 10.
Angus McLachlan’s eulogy was reported in various newspapers, for example, The Canberra Times, 3 September 1968.
For the account of the logistics of the Official History, see Bean, ‘Our War History’, The Bulletin, 27 May 1942, p. 2.
For Bazley’s letter to Lucy Bean, 6 December 1939, see AWM38 3DRL 7447/9 to 10.
Menzies’ assessment of Bean was drawn from Ellis, C.E.W Bean, p. 41.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS BY CHARLES BEAN
Bean, C.E.W., With the Flagship in the South, William Brooks, Sydney, no date, 1908 or 1909
Bean, C.E.W., On the Wool Track, Alston Rivers, London, 1910, 1913; 1916 Hodder & Stoughton, London; Cornstalk Publishing, Sydney, 1925, 1927; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1945; 1962, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1985
Bean, C.E.W., The Dreadnought of the Darling, First edition: Alston Rivers, London, 1911; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1916; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1956
Bean, C.E.W., Flagships Three, Alston Rivers, London, 1913; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1916
Bean, C.E.W., What to Know in Egypt: A guide for Australian soldiers, Société Orientale de Publicité, Cairo, 1915
Bean C.E.W., (ed.), The ANZAC Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, Cassell, London, 1916
Bean, C.E.W., Letters from France, Cassell, London, 1917
Bean, C.E.W., In Your Hands, Australians, Cassell, London, 1919
Bean C.E.W., (ed.), The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, twelve volumes, published between 1921 and 1942:
Volume 1: Bean, C.E.W., The Story of ANZAC: From the Outbreak of War to the End of the First Phase of the Gallipoli Campaign, May 4, 1915, Angus & Robertson 1921; revised, 1933; University of Queensland Press 1981
Volume 2: Bean, C.E.W., The Story of ANZAC: From 4 May 1915 to the Evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Angus & Robertson 1924; amended 1934; UQP 1981
Volume 3: Bean, C.E.W., The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916, Angus & Robertson 1929; UQP 1982
Volume 4: Bean, C.E.W., The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1917, Angus & Robertson 1933; UQP 1982
Volume 5: Bean, C.E.W., The Australian Imperial Force in France: During the Main German Offensive, 1918, Angus & Robertson 1937; UQP 1983
Volume 6: Bean, C.E.W., The Australian Imperial Force in France: During the Allied Offensive 1918, Angus & Robertson 1942; UQP 1983
Volume 7: Gullett, H.S., The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine, 1914–1918, Angus & Robertson 1923; UQP 1983
Volume 8: Cutlack, F.M., The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914–1918, Angus & Robertson 1923; UQP 1984
Volume 9: Jose, A.W., The Australian Navy, 1914–1918, Angus & Robertson 1928; UQP 1984
Volume 10: Mackenzie, S.S., The Australians at Rabaul: The capture and administration of the German possessions in the Southern Pacific, Angus & Robertson 1927; UQP 1984
Volume 11: Scott, Ernest, Australia During the War, Angus & Robertson 1936; UQP 1984
Volume 12: Bean, C.E.W., and Gullett, H.S., Photographic Record of the War: Reproduction of pictures taken by the Australian official photographers (Captains G.H. Wilkins, M.C. and J.F. Hurley, Lieutenants H.F. Baldwin and J.P. Campbell) and others, Angus & Robertson 1923
Bean, C.E.W., War Aims of a Plain Australian, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1943, 1945
Bean, C.E.W., ANZAC to Amiens: A shorter history of the Australian fighting services in the First World War, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1946
Bean, C.E.W., Gallipoli Mission, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1948; Halstead Press, Sydney 1948; republished in 1990 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in association with the Australian War Memorial, with a Foreword by Bill Gammage
Bean, C.E.W., Here, My Son: An account of the independent and other corporate boys’ schools of Australia, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1950
Bean, C.E.W., Two Men I Knew: William Bridges and Brudenell White, Founders of the AIF, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1957
SELECTED NEWSPAPER ARTICLES BY CHARLES BEAN
Bean, C.E.W., ‘The Approaching Sea-Fight in the Far East. Its place in naval history. Why it will be worth watching’, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 13 April 1905; reprinted in The West Australian, 27 April 1905
Bean, C.E.W., The ‘Australia’ series published (under the initials, ‘C.W.’) in The Sydney Morning Herald between 1 June 1907 and 20 July 1907
Bean, C.E.W., The ‘Barrier Railway’ series published in The Sydney Morning Herald (by ‘Our special Commissioner’) between 5 May and 16 June 1908
Bean, C.E.W., The Sydney Morning Herald articles upon which With the Flagship in the South was based appear to have been those attributed to ‘Our special Reporter’ on 12 August 1908, 13 August 1908, 14 August 1908, and 20 August 1908
Bean, C.E.W., ‘The Wool Land’ series in The Sydney Morning Herald (‘Our special Commissioner) published weekly between 20 September 1909 and 31 December 1909
Bean, C.E.W., ‘The Dreadnought of the Darling’ series in The Sydney Mail was entitled ‘Descriptive of a Trip Down the Darling’ and published weekly between 13 July 1910 and 7 September 1910
Bean, C.E.W., ‘The Great Rivers’ series published in The Sydney Morning Herald (from ‘Our special commissioner with the South Australian Committee’) on 13, 16 and 21 May 1914
Brown, Simon, ABC, 24 April 2009, Chester Wilmot: War Reporter, http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2009/04/24/2551705.htm
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS OF CHARLES BEAN
‘Account for Effie’. Written for the benefit of Bean’s wife, Effie, when he was hospitalised in London in 1924 after kidney surgery. (Papers of Arthur Bazley, Australian War Memorial, 3DRL/3520/Folder [10a] of 143)
‘Tasker letter’, 18 October 1930. A 19-page letter Bean sent to Henry McKean Tasker, a member of the staff of All Saints’ College, Bathurst. The letter provided the principal material for an article e
ntitled ‘Dr C.E.W. Bean’ in the 1930 issue of The Bathurstian. (Bean Papers, Australian War Memorial, AWM38/3DRL6673/573)
‘Wigmore’ letter, 16 November 1922. A three-page letter Bean sent to Lionel Gage Wigmore, a journalist at Sydney’s Daily Telegraph. (Bean Papers, Australian War Memorial, Reference AWM38/3DRL6673/573)
ARTICLES AND ADDRESSES BY CHARLES BEAN
Bean, C.E.W., A Code for Sydney, The Salon, Sydney, May 1914
Bean, C.E.W., ‘Sidelights of the War on Australian Character’, 1927, Royal Australian Historical Society Journal, Vol. XIII, Part 4, p. 209
Bean, C.E.W., Reveille, 30 June 1931
Bean, C.E.W., ‘The Writing of the Australian Official History of The Great War—Sources, Methods and Some Conclusions’, 1938, Royal Australian Historical Society Journal, Vol. XXIV, Part 2, p. 85
Bean, C.E.W., ‘The Technique of a Contemporary War Historian’, Historical Studies Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 2, April 1942–November 1943, p. 65
Bean, C.E.W., ‘I believe…’ The ABC Weekly, Sydney, 3 April 1948, p. 41
OTHER BOOKS
Barker, Anthony, George Robertson: A Publishing Life in Letters, Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 1993
Barton, Peter, The Lost Legions of Fromelles, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 2014
Bean, Edwin, A Historical Sketch of Sir Anthony Browne’s School, Brentwood, Essex, Westbury Press, Essex, undated
Brenchley, Fred and Elizabeth, Myth Maker, Wiley, Milton, Queensland, 2005
Broadbent, Harvey, Gallipoli: The fatal shore, Viking, Camberwell, Victoria, 2005
Burness, Peter, The Nek: A Gallipoli Tragedy, Exisle Publishing, Wollombi NSW, 1996; p. 150
Cameron, David W., Sorry Lads, but the Order is to Go, The August Offensive, Gallipoli: 1915, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2009
Carlyon, Les, Gallipoli, Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 2002
Carlyon, Les, The Great War, Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 2006
Cobb, Paul, Fromelles 1916, The History Press, Gloucestershire, 2007
Cutlack, F.M. (ed.), War letters of General Monash, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1934
Dyson, Will, Australia at War—Drawings at the Front, Cecil Parker and Hayward, London, 1918
Fewster, Kevin, (ed.), Bean’s Gallipoli, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2007
Fletcher, C. Brunsdon, The Great Wheel, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1940
Freestone, Robert, Cities, Citizens and Environmental Reform, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2009
Gammage, Bill, The Broken Years, ANU Press, Canberra, 1974
Green, H.M. A History of Australian Literature Vol. 1, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1961
Harrison, Peter, Walter Burley Griffin: Landscape Architect, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1995
Hofstadter, Richard, The Age of Reform, Vintage, New York, 1955
Holbrook, Carolyn, Anzac: The Unauthorised Biography, Newsouth, Sydney, 2014
Horne, Donald, In Search of Billy Hughes, Macmillan, Sydney, 1979
Horner, David, Blamey, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998
Inglis, K.S., C.E.W. Bean, Australian Historian: The John Murtagh Macrossan Lecture, UQP, Brisbane, 1969
James, Peggy, Cosmopolitan Conservationists, Australian Scholarly, North Melbourne, 2013
James, Robert Rhodes, Gallipoli, B.T. Batsford, London, 1965
Phillip Knightley, The First Casualty, Quartet Books, London, 1978
Knighton, C.S. (ed), Clifton College: Foundation to Evacuation, Bristol Record Society, Bristol, 2012
Legg, Frank and Hurley, Toni, Once More On My Adventure: The Life of Frank Hurley, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1966
Macintyre, Stuart, A History for a Nation, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1994
McCarthy, Dudley, Gallipoli to the Somme, John Ferguson, Sydney, 1983
McKernan, Michael, Here is Their Spirit, UQP, Brisbane, 1991
McKernan, Michael, Gallipoli, A Short History, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2010
McMullin, Ross, Pompey Elliott, Scribe, Carlton North, 2002
McMullin, Ross, Will Dyson, Australia’s Radical Genius, Scribe, Melbourne, 2006
McQueen, Humphrey, Temper Democratic, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, SA, 1998
Murdoch, Keith, The Gallipoli Letter, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2010
Nasht, Simon, The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Australia’s Unknown Hero, Hodder, Sydney, 2005
Neville, Graham, Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998
Newton, Douglas, Hell-Bent, Scribe, Brunswick, Victoria, 2014
Pedersen, P.A., Monash as Military Commander, MUP, Melbourne, 1985
Pedersen, Peter, The Anzacs: Gallipoli to the Western Front, Penguin, Camberwell, Victoria, 2007
Piggott, Michael, A Guide to The Personal Family and Official Papers of C.E.W. Bean, AWM, 1983
Rees, Peter, Desert Boys, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2011
Robson, L.L. The First AIF: A study of its recruitment 1914–1918, MUP, Carlton, 1970
Roe, Michael, Nine Australian Progressives—vitalism in bourgeois social thought, 1890–1960, UQP, Brisbane, 1984
Semmler, Clement, The Banjo of the Bush, Lansdowne, Sydney, 1975
Schuler, Peter, Australia in Arms, Fisher Unwin, London, 1916
Selth, P.A, (ed.), Canberra Collection, Lowden, Kilmore, 1976
Serle, Geoffrey, John Monash, MUP, Melbourne, 1982
Souter, Gavin, Company of Heralds, MUP, Melbourne, 1981
Stanley, Peter, Quinn’s Post, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005
Stanley, Peter, Men of Mont St Quentin, Scribe, Melbourne, 2009
Stanley, Peter, Bad Characters, Pier 9, Sydney, 2010
Williams, John. F., Anzacs, the Media and the Great War, UNSW, Sydney, 1999
Winter, Denis, Making the Legend: The War Writings of CEW Bean, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1992
Woolf, Virginia; Bell, Vanessa; with Stephen, Thoby, Hyde Park Gate News, Hesperus Press, London, 2005
Younger, R.M., Keith Murdoch: Founder of a Media Empire, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2003
Zwar, Desmond, In Search of Keith Murdoch, Macmillan, Sydney, 1980
JOURNALS, MANUSCRIPTS AND PAPERS
Bazley, A.W., AWM 3 DRL 3520. Also private diary, held by the Bazley family.
Condé, Anne-Marie, ‘John Treloar, Official War Art and the Australian War Memorial,’ AJPH, vol. 53, no. 3, 2007
Cunneen, Tony, ‘Slaughter of the Innocents, The Destruction of the 18th Battalion at Gallipoli, August 1915’, Australian Army Journal, vol. VII, no. 2
Ellis, Stephen, C.E.W. Bean: A Study of His Life and Works, thesis for Master of Arts, University of New England, 1969
Ellis, Stephen, ‘Racism in Australia’, The Australian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 3, September 1972
Ellis, Stephen, ‘The Censorship of the Official Naval History of Australia in the Great War’, Historical Studies, vol. 20, no. 80, 1983
Jolly, Martyn, Australian First World War Photography, http://martynjolly.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/australian-first-world-war-photography-1999.pdf
Lindsay, Geoff S.C., ‘Be Substantially Great in Thy Self: Getting to Know C.E.W. Bean, Barrister, Judge’s Associate, Moral Philosopher’, http://www.forbessociety.org.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/bean.pdf
Londey, Peter, ‘A Possession For Ever: Charles Bean, the Ancient Greeks, and Military Commemoration in Australia’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 53, no. 3, September 2007
Melrose, Craig, A Praise That Never Ages: The Australian War Memorial and the national interpretation of the First World War, 1922–35, thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Queensland, 2004
Murphy, Kate, ‘Australian Urban Reformers and the Ideal of Rurality, 1900–1918’, Rural History, vol. 20, issue 1, April 2009
Putnis, Peter, Professor of Communication, University of Canberra, ‘Keith Murdoch: War-time Journalist, 1915–1918’; privately held
The Australasia
n Photo Review, 15 February 1919
Whyte, Lucy, At the Intersection of Religion, Nationalism and Commemoration: An Analysis of the Formation of the Australian War Memorial 1916–1941, report drafted for the Australian War Memorial, 2013
SELECTED NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Anthony Barker, ‘Words at War’, Weekend Australian Magazine 20–21 April 1996; and Martin Ball, ‘Re-reading Bean’s Last Paragraph’, Australian Historical Studies, 122, 2003
Acknowledgements
Charles Bean was a meticulous man who produced voluminous records, both private and official. In working my way through them I have been lucky to have the help of many people. I would like to thank Charles Bean’s grandchildren Edward Bean Le Couteur and Anne Marie Carroll for giving me access to his archive at the Australian War Memorial and permission to use extracts from his diaries, and for making the family photo albums available to me. I would also like to acknowledge Ian Carroll for his role in facilitating the process. Anne also kindly gave me access to the private diary that Charles Bean’s mother, Lucy Bean, began before handing it over to her son for his continued use. Along with Anne Carroll and Ted Le Couteur, Charles Bean’s niece the late Phyllis Bauer also shared her memories of Charles and Effie. Another niece, Pam Thompson, also helped in this regard.
Arthur Bazley played a major role in the life of Charles Bean, and I am indebted to his son, Peter Bazley—Bean’s godson—and his wife, Shirley Bazley, for their great help in providing advice during my research, and then making available extracts from Arthur Bazley’s diaries and photos from his collection, which their daughter Nichola Bazley-Smith copied.
At the Australian War Memorial, I am indebted to Craig Tibbits and the staff at the Research Centre for their help with files. I would also like to acknowledge advice from Ashley Ekins, Head of the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial, and Senior Historian Peter Burness. I would also like to thank Dr Tracy Bradford, of the State Library of New South Wales, for her help with access to files. Peter Sekuless also kindly loaned me books written by Charles Bean and books relevant to his life. In London, my thanks go to the staff at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College, London, who kindly organised files for me.