He was wounded in August but remained on Gallipoli for most of the campaign, leaving just a few days before the last troops. He accompanied the first convoy to Egypt, landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and began to make his name as a tireless, thorough and brave correspondent. When the First World War began, Bean won an Australian Journalists Association ballot and became official correspondent to the AIF. In 1913 he returned to Sydney as the Herald's leader writer. He published several books before being posted to London in 1910. Having dabbled in journalism, Bean joined the Sydney Morning Herald as a junior reporter in January 1908. In these articles Bean introduced a view of Australia, particularly its men, which foreshadowed much of what he would write about the AIF.
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The book was never published but in mid-1907 much of its content appeared in a series of Sydney Morning Herald articles under the by-line 'CW'. He travelled widely in New South Wales as a barrister's assistant and, struck by the outback way of life, wrote and illustrated a book, The impressions of a new chum. He completed his education there, eventually studying classics and law at Oxford.īean returned to Australia in 1904 and was admitted to the New South Wales Bar. Bean was born on 18 November 1879 at Bathurst, New South Wales and his family moved to England when he was ten. He was also the driving force behind the establishment of the Australian War Memorial. Before this, however, he was Australia's official correspondent to the war. Charles Bean is perhaps best remembered for the official histories of Australia in the First World War, of which he wrote six volumes and edited the remainder.