An Introduction!

Why hello there good lady, sir, or variation thereupon.
I am Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, and it is delightful to make your acquaintance!

I was born in 1879, on November 18^th, in Bathurst, New South Wales, in Australia.

When I was 10, in 1889, my family moved to England, where I attended Brentwood in Essex, then in 1894, I went to Clifton College, before I won a scholarship to Hertford college. I returned to Australia in 1904, and until 1908 I worked as a lawyer. In 1908 I joined The Sunday Morning Herald as a reporter.

In 1915, I sailed with the main body of the Australian Imperial Force to Anzac Cove. Only weeks later, I accompanied two Australian brigades at Cape Helles. I assisted wounded men under fire, and I was recommended for the Military Cross. But being a civilian, I was ineligible.

I was a rather important person, of course, being a schoolmaster, judge’s associate, barrister journalist, husband, father of an adopted child, war correspondent and historian. I was most famous for being the editor (and writer of Volumes I to VI) of the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914 – 1918. I was even offered knighthood, but declined.

In 1952, I became the chairman of the Australian War Memorial board.

I perished in 1968, in the Concord Repatriation General Hospital. Sad, sad event that was.

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