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Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean

Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean was born on the 18th of November 1879 in the city of Bathurst, New South Wales.
But in 1889 Charles and his family moved to England.
Charles attended Brentwood School in Essex which is father was headmaster of but in 1894 Charles changed schools to Clifton College before winning a scholarship to Hertford College in Oxford in 1898.
After Charles finished his schooling he returned to Australia he taught briefly at Sydney Grammar School but then moved on to be a Legal Assistant in 1905 to 1907 he then resigned and did a series of stories in the Sydney Morning Herald as a reporte.
He then also started writing books after time.

On the 14th of September 1914 executive council of the Australians Journal Association appointed Charles as the official war correspondent with the AIF troops (Australian Imperial Force). He was then honorarily given the ranking of a captain and then followed in the footsteps of the Australians infantries campaigns.

Being a war correspondent people describes Charles as being quite a dull person but also accurate, papers such as ‘The Age’ and ‘The Argus’ started to stop publishing Charles’ stories as for it had an “unappealing” style

On the 6th of August during the night on the peninsular in Gallipoli Charles was stick in the leg by a Turkish bullet which was a stray and unexpected shot.
Desipite his wound he stayed on the peninsula.
He later left Gallipoli for good during the night of the 17th of december which was only 2 nights before the final evacuation of the Anzacs.

Western Front
The Australian infantry moved to France in 1916 and to continue reporting the engagements involving the Australian Troops Charles went with them.
He monitored and r...

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... years was John Treloar and no one cared about Charles vision anymore than this man did and he did everything possible to make the Memorial nothing less than what Charles had visioned.

Charles sadly died on the 30th of August 1968 in concord repatriation general hospital.

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Quote from Charles
“The war correspondent is responsible for most of the ideas of battle which the public possesses … I can’t write that it occurred if I know that it did not, even if by painting it that way I can rouse the blood and make the pulse beat faster – and undoubtedly these men here deserve that people’s pulses shall beat for them. But War Correspondents have so habitually exaggerated the heroism of battles that people don’t realise that real actions are heroic.”

Works Cited

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bean
http://www.anzacsite.gov.au/1landing/beanbio.html

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