75-677: The Canberra Country Blues & Roots Festival , originally established as the Canberra Country Music Festival , is a 3-day event held annually in November with a focus on all subgenres of country music, dance and workshops. The event has been held in various locations around Canberra including Tuggeranong Homestead , Exhibition Park in Canberra , and the Hall Showgrounds This festival went on hiatus in 2020. The festival has
150-502: A judge's associate . As such he saw much of New South Wales on circuit in 1905–07 and, as Inglis noted, he was struck by the outback way of life. In 1907, in his last days as a judge's associate, he wrote articles about "The Australian character" which were published in the Sydney Morning Herald ( SMH ) under the banner "Australia." In 1908 Bean abandoned law for journalism and, at the suggestion of Paterson, applied to join
225-586: A Dominion unit, as well as all headquarters that issued orders to Dominion units, including the GHQ of the British Expeditionary Force . By the end of the war, the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID) was less than willing to divulge this information, possibly fearing it would be used to criticise the conduct of the war. It took six years of persistence before Bean was allowed access and a further three years for
300-470: A Shearers Ball held in the woolshed to which all the community was invited. The Goulburn Evening Penny Post described the event held in 1898 in the following terms: The Cunningham family left Tuggeranong Homestead in 1914 and went to Lanyon which Jim had purchased after his brother's death. The Government resumed the land to become part of the Federal Capital Territory. In 1919 Charles Bean
375-524: A centre for sporting and social events. He also built a racetrack on the property and owned several champion racehorses. A photo of the first race meeting at this track is shown here . Timothy died in 1938 and Tuggeranong continued to be operated by the McCormack family until 1974 when it was compulsorily resumed by the Government for suburban development. Although Canberra suburbs have been developed on much of
450-553: A condition of the gift of his papers to the AWM in 1942 he stipulated that it attach to every diary and notebook a caveat which was amended in 1948 to read, in part: 'These records should … be used with great caution, as relating only what their author, at the time of writing, believed'. Bean arrived in Egypt on 3 December 1914. He was asked by Senior A.I.F. Command to write a booklet, What to Know in Egypt … A Guide for Australian Soldiers , to help
525-565: A correspondent. Whatever he wrote was to be subject to rigid censorship. Senator George Pearce , Minister for Defence in the Commonwealth Labor Government, told Bean before he sailed to the war that he hoped Bean would write the history of the Australian part in it on his return to Australia. Bean’s work habits throughout the war were predicated on gathering material for that purpose. On 21 October 1914, Bean left Australia on
600-536: A future Australia as being an agrarian society with millions of farms which thinking was, according to Bolleter, "in the ascendant until the mid-twentieth century and beyond". Despite Bean's interest at the outbreak of World War I in investigating social conditions in Aboriginal communities to publish a series of articles, Aboriginal Australians are not mentioned in his vision or referred to by him in his text, but neither are they necessarily excluded from his vision or
675-508: A good summary of its scope in a contemporary newspaper interview. Bean returned to Australia in May 1919 after an absence of four and a half years. With a small staff, Bean took up his appointment as official historian in 1919, based first in the rural setting of Tuggeranong homestead, near the then unbuilt Federal Capital, Canberra, and later at Victoria Barracks, Sydney . The central stipulation that Bean laid down when he became official historian
750-623: A museum. This request was granted and all contributions can now be viewed in the AWM's archives. In late March 1916, Bean sailed with the A.I.F. from Egypt to France, where he reported on all but one of the engagements involving Australian soldiers. As evidenced by his diary entries, he moved back and forth along the Western Front with the Australian troops, often at the frontline under fire, running from shell hole to shell hole for protection. He sent press despatches back to Australia, continuing to record military actions, conversations, interviews, and
825-463: A national war museum which he envisaged not only as the repository of official pictures, photographs, maps, records, dioramas and relics from the battlefield but also as a national memorial to Australians who had died in the War. In February–March 1919, on his homeward journey, Bean led a group of eight Australians including artist George Lambert , photographer Hubert Wilkins , and scribe John Balfour on
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#1732859484947900-661: A nursing sister at Queanbeyan Hospital when she came to one of the tennis matches. He married her the following year and she also lived at the Homestead. Besides tennis the team had a passion for cricket and they built a sturdy cricket pitch which still remains today. After they left in 1925 the Homestead stood empty for two years and then in 1927 the property was leased by Timothy McCormack. Timothy Joseph McCormack owned Tuggeranong Homestead from 1927 until his death in 1938. He also controlled properties in Crookwell and at Royalla . He
975-623: A private tutor in Tenerife . Later that year he returned to Australia where he retained his parallel interests in teaching and writing, becoming an assistant master at Sydney Grammar School and writing articles for the Evening News , at that time edited by Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson . Admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1905, Bean commenced his legal career in Australia as a barrister, and as
1050-482: A privilege not extended to some British historians. Having missed the poorly conceived and executed attack at Fromelles on 19 July 1916, the first big Australian action in France which had resulted in heavy losses, Bean was there the following morning moving among survivors getting their stories. It was the fallen at Fromelles to whom Bean dedicated his Letters from France, a selection of his first-hand observations from
1125-409: A prosperous sheep property. Up to 50,000 were shorn there each year. Typically the shearing season started at the beginning of November when about twenty-five men were employed to undertake this task. They were sometimes local but often small landholders supplementing their income came from Tumut , Gundagai or other outlying places. After the shearing finished, usually in early December, there would be
1200-632: A reminder of the endurance, reckless bravery and humour in adversity that epitomised 'the Anzac spirit'. Although The Anzac Book presented a specially crafted image of the Anzac soldier, Bean did not want the historical record altered because of selective editing for its initial intended purpose. In February 1917, he wrote to the War Records Office with a suggestion that important documents – such as The Anzac Book manuscript and rejected contributions – be preserved so that they could one day be deposited in
1275-585: A reputation for giving national and international exposure to Australian Indigenous country music performers. The festival is also the home of the Canberra Country Music Awards, Canberra Country Songwriting Awards, Country's Got Talent competition and Canberra Ute Car + Truck Muster. The latter event has been unique in featuring Top Gear's Arctic Explorer Hi Lux vehicles as well as the first electric and hybrid awards for utes and trucks in Australia. Tuggeranong Homestead Tuggeranong Homestead
1350-697: A series of articles on that topic. By mid-1914 however, he was writing a daily commentary on the crisis in Europe. Following the declaration of war by Britain, and Australian forces becoming involved, the Australian Government requested the Australian Journalists' Association to nominate an official correspondent to accompany the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F). In September 1914 Bean was elected by his peers, defeating Keith Murdoch in
1425-623: A visit to Gallipoli. The aim of the group, the Australian Historical Mission, was to carry out research on the battlefields of the 1915 Anzac campaign; create new works of art and photographs to help convey the story of the trauma and tragedy; collect sacred relics; discuss a plan for the Gallipoli war graves, and to obtain from the Turks their story of the fighting. The mission was the subject of Bean's Gallipoli Mission (1952), but he gave
1500-555: Is located in the Australian Capital Territory in the area now covered by the suburb of Richardson . It is a property of historical significance and is listed on the ACT Heritage Register. It was owned by a succession of prominent pastoralists over the last century before it was resumed by the Government. Today it is used as a venue for special events, conferences and weddings. The first authorised landowner of
1575-517: The August Offensive , the last British throw at the Dardanelles, Bean was shot in the thigh. Reluctant to relinquish his post at a time of activity he refused to be evacuated from the peninsula to a hospital ship, convalescing in his dugout. The bullet remained lodged within millimetres of his femoral artery for the rest of his life. The only Allied correspondent who stayed on Gallipoli throughout
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#17328594849471650-465: The East India Company . He built a stone cottage and barn using convict labour. The barn still exists although it has been adapted for other uses. Part of Macquoid's cottage was incorporated into the drawing room of the homestead when it was remodelled 1908. In 1841 Macquoid ended his own life due to depression and financial hardship. His son Hya Macquoid took over management of the property and
1725-520: The A.I.F. Educational scheme for returning soldiers which was established in May 1918, with Bishop George Long as its inaugural Director of Education. In 1918, when a successor to General Birdwood as commander of the Australian Corps was being chosen, Bean intervened on behalf of General Brudenell White , Birdwood's Chief Staff Officer. According to Chadwick, Bean was one of many who considered that White, not General John Monash , should have
1800-615: The AIF. In these three initiatives, namely the establishment of the AWRS , the commissioning of official Australian war artists, and the commissioning of official Australian war photographers, Captain H. C. Smart of the Australian High Commission in London played an important part. Bean was further involved in the administration of the A.I.F., contributing to the formation and development of
1875-541: The Australian character — mateship, resilience and laconic good humour in the face of adversity. Bean took that sense of an independent Australian character with him to war. His articles from this experience were subsequently reworked into two books: On the Wool Track, first published in 1910, reprinted many times and now accepted as an Australian classic, and the social documentary of the Darling River, The Dreadnought of
1950-573: The Darling , an account of his trip down the river on a small paddle steamer, first published in 1911. In 1910, the SMH sent Bean to London as its representative. He travelled via America, writing a series of articles about the development of the cities he visited and the provision of open spaces. While in England, he continued this interest and took the opportunity to visit town planning experiments. In Scotland he
2025-1020: The First World War is remembered in Australia . When Bean died on 30 August 1968, aged 88, an obituary written by Guy Harriott, associate editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and a former war correspondent, described Bean as being "one of Australia's most distinguished men of letters". Charles Bean was born in Bathurst, New South Wales , the first of three sons of the Reverend Edwin Bean (1851–1922), then headmaster of All Saints' College , Bathurst, and Lucy Madeline Bean, née Butler (1852–1942). In his paper "Be Substantially Great in Thy Self: Getting to Know C.E.W. Bean: Barrister, Judge's Associate, Moral Philosopher", Geoff Lindsay SC contended that Bean's family and his formal education fostered his values which were influenced by "The Arnold Tradition". This
2100-473: The Somme caused Bean to conceive the idea of a memorial where Australia could commemorate its war dead and view the relics its troops collected. Bean had noticed as early as the Gallipoli campaign that Australian soldiers were avid collectors of battlefield souvenirs and imagined a museum where they would be displayed. Several months after the fighting at Pozières, Bean returned to retrace the battle where he collected
2175-551: The Tuggeranong area following white settlement was Peter Murdoch, aide-de-camp of Thomas Brisbane , who was awarded a grant of 2,000 acres (8 km ) in 1827. Following Murdoch's appointment to a position in Tasmania in 1829, the area became part of a grant to John McLaren who arrived from Glasgow in 1828. The property, then known as Janevale, was managed as a cattle station by McLaren's partner, William Wright (Moore, 1982). Tuggeranong
2250-481: The Western Front published in 1917. The dedication reads; "To those other Australians who fell in the Sharpest Action their Force has known, on July 19, 1916, before Fromelles, these Memories of a Greater, but not a Braver, Battle are herewith Dedicated". The author's profits from the book were devoted to the fund for nursing back to useful citizenship Australians blinded or maimed in the war. Several days after
2325-456: The Western Front: "...we found the old no man's land simply full of our dead”. Bean returned to Melbourne with the returning troops on the transport Kildonan Castle in May 1919. The Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War notes that "Bean was the only Australian correspondent who was with the A.I.F. for the duration of Australia's involvement in the War, from Gallipoli to
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2400-492: The activities of the A.I.F. he could personally witness. He would position himself with his telescope "about 1,200 yards from (or, on Gallipoli, almost right in) the frontline." As well as reporting, Bean kept an almost daily diary record of events. These diary entries also reflected the feelings and views of an individual who witnessed those events which ranged from battles to planning and discussions in headquarters, and to men at rest and in training. He regarded his diaries as
2475-509: The armistice, on 21 November 1918, Monash was brought to London to be Director General of the A.I.F. Department of Demobilisation and Repatriation, taking command formally on 4 December. On 11 November 1918, Armistice Day, Bean's diary records that he returned to Fromelles with a photographer to revisit the battlefields where over two years earlier on the night of 19–20 July 1916, the Australians had endured their brutal introduction of warfare on
2550-536: The articles were published in book form as With the Flagship in the South in which Bean advocated the establishment of an Australian Navy Fleet. The Imperial Naval Conference of 1909 decided that Australia should be advised to form her own Fleet unit, which occurred in 1911. In 1909, Bean was sent by the SMH to far western New South Wales to write a series of articles on the wool industry. This event reinforced his views on
2625-427: The battle of Fromelles ended, Bean witnessed the battle of Pozières . Over several weeks he was on the ground and sometimes in the trenches as the fighting raged. The experience shook him as it revealed the horror and destruction of modern warfare. The heavy casualties incurred there almost broke the back of the all-volunteer A.I.F. Bean recorded in his diary: 'Pozieres is one vast Australian cemetery'. The carnage on
2700-421: The campaign, Bean sent a stream of stories back to his newspapers. "While some editors", according to The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History, "complained that Bean’s despatches were insufficiently graphic, his writing was sober and painstakingly accurate and sought to convey within the limitations imposed on him, something of the experience of the Australians at the front." As no official photographer
2775-528: The corps command. In his last book, Two Men I Knew: William Bridges and Brudenell White, Founders of the A.I.F. Bean told the story, related also in volume VI of the Official History , of his own "high-intentioned but ill-judged intervention" in this matter. Kelly viewed that intervention as having been, nonetheless, motivated by what Bean believed to be in the best interests of the A.I.F. In correspondence to Brudenell White (28 June 1918) Bean wrote about
2850-505: The daughter of Edward Twynam, the NSW Surveyor General. A photo of Mary at about this time is shown. Over the next twelve years the couple had eight children. Mary played her role as a successful pastoralist's wife attending balls, participating in fundraising activities for the parish church and local hospital. The homestead itself became the social hub of the district and Mary and Jim hosted many gatherings there. Tuggeranong became
2925-663: The dawn attack. The Australian Dictionary of Biography entry on Bean notes: "Australians at home read a detailed account of the landing in the papers of 8 May. It was not by Bean, whose first dispatch was held up by the British authorities in Alexandria until 13 May, but by the English correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett . Both accounts were reprinted many times. Bean's was the more precise, for he had seen more. The English reporter betrayed surprise that untrained colonials had done so well; Bean
3000-501: The end of 1918 when the Germans were seeking an armistice, Bean resumed thinking of a post war Australia. He took leave and in several weeks wrote and published his tract, In Your Hands, Australians , exhorting Australians to pursue the aims of peace with the dedication, organisation and tenacity with which they had fought the war. He asked "What can we do for Australia in the long peace which many who will not return have helped to win?" Of
3075-400: The ethos of which was also in the tradition of Arnold. While at Clifton, Bean developed an interest in literature and in 1898 won a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford , taking a Masters of Arts in 1903 and a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1904. During his schooling Bean served in the volunteer corps, both at Clifton College and at Oxford University. In 1904, Bean taught at Brentwood and as
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3150-495: The evidence of "what actual experiences, at the point where men lay out behind hedges or on the fringe of woods, caused those on one side to creep, walk, or run forward, and the others to go back". The website of the Sir John Monash Centre notes that Bean’s editorial opinions often contradicted military authorities, yet he was highly respected. Bean observed the "fog of war" (communication breakdown between commanders in
3225-520: The first relics for what would eventually become the AWM. Subsequently, at Bean's prompting, the Australian War Records Section (AWRS) was established in London in May 1917, under the command of Lieutenant, later Lieutenant Colonel, John Treloar . The Section's task was to collect and organise the documentary record of the Australian forces, so that it could be preserved for Australia, rather than be absorbed into Britain's records. Over
3300-414: The foundation of the official history, “especially for the detail of what happened in and immediately behind the front line”. In later years he reviewed his diary comments and sometimes revised his wartime opinions, but the immediacy of each diary entry provides insight into the times and conditions as he was experiencing them. Bean was aware of the limitations of the diaries and of eyewitness accounts. As
3375-460: The genre and priceless insights into the nature of the Great War. But for Bean the quest was for accuracy and honesty rather than artistry. Bean, with Treloar, was also involved in the program for employing Australian war artists . Among those were Will Dyson (1880–1938) and George Lambert (1873–1930), who were already living in London, and Frank Crozier (1883–1948) who was already serving with
3450-477: The importance to Australia of a planned repatriation of the troops: "To me repatriation means the future of Australia". Later, in October 1918, Bean urged Prime Minister, William Hughes, "that it was all important to get some plan drawn up by the A.I.F. at the earliest possible moment – put Monash in charge – Birdwood is not the man for it at all. It was urgent, I said, if they did not want a catastrophe". Ten days after
3525-547: The last battles Australia fought on the Western Front, a feat which had few parallels elsewhere in the Empire". In an article subtitled "Tribute to Mr Bean" in the Sydney Morning Herald on 9 June 1919, Sir Brudenell White said: "That man faced death more times than any other man in the A.I.F., and had no glory to look for either. What he did – and he did wonders – was done from a pure sense of duty." Whilst still in France at
3600-436: The married men lived with their families in small cottages located about 400 metres away. At the back of the house was a large paddock where the team's horses were kept as well as a few sheep and a cow for milk. Water was pumped from Tuggeranong Creek which ran past one corner of the Homestead. In later years Charles remembered the peace and tranquillity of the property. He said: In 1920 Charles met his future wife Ethel Young
3675-584: The national ballot. He became an embedded correspondent , whose despatches, reporting on Australia's participation in the war, were to be available to all Australian newspapers and published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette . He was accorded the honorary mess rank of captain, provided with a batman and driver and was required to submit his despatches to the British censor. On advice, however, he retained his civilian status in order to be free of unnecessary military restrictions in carrying out his duties as
3750-483: The next two years, the AWRS acquired approximately 25,000 objects, termed by Bean as 'relics', as well as paper records, photographs, film, publications, and works of art. These were brought back to Australia in 1919 and formed the basis of the collection of the AWM. Treloar, who was later appointed the AWM's Director, contributed more than any other person to the realisation of Bean's AWM vision. Bean believed that photography
3825-694: The original property the homestead has been preserved on 65 acres (260,000 m ) of surrounding land. The heritage-listed property currently hosts the Tuggeranong Homestead markets, on the first Sunday of every month, and is also a home for the Calwell Scout Group. 35°25′52″S 149°06′38″E / 35.4310°S 149.1105°E / -35.4310; 149.1105 Charles Bean Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (18 November 1879 – 30 August 1968), usually identified as C. E. W. Bean ,
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#17328594849473900-604: The previous night with 150 pieces of art, prose and verse, created under conditions of extreme hardship by soldiers in the trenches, and intended for a New Year magazine. The evacuation led to a change of plan — they would be published in the form of a book. Besides acting as editor, Bean contributed photographs, drawings, and two pieces of verse: 'Abdul', portraying the Turk as an honourable opponent, and 'Non Nobis', questioning why some, including Bean himself, had survived and others not. The Anzac Book , published in London in May 1916, became
3975-439: The rear and troops at the frontline) and he described the devastating effects of shellshock. Intense artillery fire, he said, ripped away the conventions of psychological shelter and left men "with no other protection than the naked framework of their character", an experience too much for many. The Centre’s website further notes that Bean's reputation and influence grew and, in 1916, he was granted access to British Army war diaries,
4050-409: The soldiers returning from the War who were interested in their work made progress very difficult. It was then decided that a peaceful location could be provided at Tuggeranong Homestead which was by this stage owned by the Government. The team transferred there in October 1919 and remained there until April 1925. The Homestead provided living quarters as well as offices for most of the staff but two of
4125-586: The staff of the SMH In mid-1908, as a junior reporter he covered the waterside workers' strike and wrote a twelve-part series of articles on country NSW under the banner 'Barrier Railway.' Later in 1908, as a special correspondent for the SMH on HMS Powerful , the flagship of the Royal Navy squadron in Australia, Bean reported on the visit of the United States' Great White Fleet to Australia. The following year
4200-457: The steps that should be taken to control the city's future development. Among his initiatives was his call for a Chair of Town Planning and Architecture at Sydney University and for the resumption of land to allow a necessary expansion of the city's railways. Bean's "The Great Rivers" series for the SMH was published in May 1914. At the outbreak of World War I, he was investigating social conditions in Aboriginal communities, intending to publish
4275-449: The text. There are instances in the tract where Bean uses inclusive language such as: "…the making of a nation is in the hands of every man and woman, every boy and girl", and "We must plan for the education of every person in the State in body, mind and character". In London prior to his departure and on the boat voyage home, Bean put into writing his proposals for the official history and for
4350-494: The time of writing it, Bean was a supporter of the White Australia ideology which, Rees has noted, he [Bean] would revisit and re-evaluate over the years ahead. Inglis also noted that "The sense of values established in [Bean’s] boyhood remained constant; some of the opinions he derived from it were still changing. Before 1914 he had employed serenely the notion of an English race, and briskly defended White Australia.…By 1949 he
4425-408: The tract he wrote: "….this little book is written to suggest a few ways in which every man, woman, and child can live for his country; ways in which you can all enlist in this great, generous fight for Australia, to place and keep your country, if possible, amongst the greatest countries in the world." In the tract Bean urged the creation of an "Anglo-Saxon nation of free, happy brilliant people". At
4500-407: The troops better understand their new environment. Despite the advice contained in the guide "a handful of rowdies" was sent home from Egypt. Bean was asked to send a report covering the issue. The resulting newspaper coverage aroused concern with families in Australia and resentment towards him from among the troops in Egypt. Bean landed on Gallipoli about 10 am on 25 April 1915, a few hours after
4575-427: The troopship HMAT Orvieto, which carried Major General Bridges and his headquarters. He was accompanied by Private Arthur Bazley , his formally designated batman, who became his invaluable assistant, researcher, lifelong friend and, later, acting Director of the AWM. During the course of the war, although Bean developed close relationships with senior commanders, he was never far from the front line, reporting on
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#17328594849474650-471: The wedding was reported in many of the newspapers. Mary was the daughter of William Kennedy of Kialla who was a counsellor of the Crookwell Shire Council. The couple had five children three sons and two daughters. In 1927 Timothy leased Tuggeranong and developed a fine grazing property which produced world class merino wool. He also planted cereal crops and improved pastures. The Homestead became
4725-540: 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 Australian War Memorial (AWM). According to the Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War , no other Australian has been more influential in shaping the way
4800-510: Was able to pay his father's debts after some years. He was drowned on the ship Dunbar when it sank at South Head in Sydney in 1857. His body was never recovered. The land was advertised for sale in 1858 and bought by Andrew Cunningham who owned Lanyon. In 1874 James (Jim) Cunningham who was Andrew's youngest son moved to the property which he called "Tuggranong" and lived in a small stone cottage. In 1889, aged 39, Jim married 19-year-old Mary Twynam,
4875-469: Was able to witness the building of the newly-established Australian fleet's flagship, HMAS Australia , and the cruisers HMAS Melbourne and Sydney . His despatches to the SMH describing their construction were later incorporated in Flagships Three which was published in 1913. Early in 1913, Bean returned to Sydney as a leader-writer for the SMH , continuing to write about town planning and
4950-503: Was allowed to use the Homestead to undertake his mammoth task of writing the history of Australia's part in World War 1. Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean was commissioned by the Government to write twelve volumes on the history of Australia's part in the War in 1919. He and his team commenced this project at Victoria Barracks in Melbourne but it was soon found that the many interruptions caused by
5025-408: Was appointed to cover Gallipoli, Bean also recorded events with a camera. The AWM's official photograph collection contains 1100 of his prints covering the first convoy, Egypt and Gallipoli. Bean left Gallipoli on the night of 17 December 1915, watching and recording from the deck of HMS Grafton the final evacuation of A.I.F. troops from Anzac Cove . Bazley had left for the island of Imbros on
5100-460: Was arguing for admission of limited numbers of immigrants from Asia rather than perpetrating a 'quite senseless colour line'." In his essay "Racism in Australia – A Contribution to the Debate", Ellis has charted Bean's shift from support for a "White Australia" before World War I to a multi-racial immigration policy after experience of two World Wars and the horror of Nazi racialism. Bean also envisaged
5175-505: Was born in 1873 in Wheeo near Crookwell. His father also called Timothy worked on a farming property owned by his grandmother Catherine McCormack who had moved to the Crookwell district as a widow in 1863. His father died in 1882 when Timothy was nine years old. His mother remarried but he continued his association with his father's family at Wheeo. In 1899 he married Mary Kennedy in Crookwell and
5250-399: Was consistent with, if not a reflection of, the "Arnold Tradition". Bean's formal education began in Australia at All Saints' College, Bathurst. In 1889, when Bean was nine, the family moved to England, where he was educated at Brentwood School, Essex (1891–1894), of which his father was the newly appointed headmaster. In 1894 Bean entered Clifton College , Bristol — his father's alma mater,
5325-454: Was essential to the work of a modern historian, taking his own photographs on Gallipoli. On the Western Front, private cameras were banned in British armies. After lobbying, Bean succeeded in mid–1917 in having two Australians commissioned as official photographers to the A.I.F: polar adventurers Frank Hurley and Hubert Wilkins . Bean and Hurley, however, had opposing ideas, particularly over composite images some of which have become classics of
5400-631: Was seeing what he hoped to see: the Australian soldiers, as he described them, were displaying qualities he had observed out in the country". For the help he gave to wounded men under fire on the night of 8 May 1915 during the Australian charge at Krithia , Bean was recommended for the Military Cross , for which as a civilian he was not eligible. He was, however, Mentioned in Despatches . His bravery erased whatever hostility remained from his report from Egypt about those soldiers who were sent home. During
5475-539: Was that the history was to be free from government censorship, though he had to yield when the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board insisted on removing critical passages from Volume IX, A. W. Jose's The Royal Australian Navy . In 1916, the British War Cabinet had agreed to grant Dominion official historians access to the war diaries of all British Army units fighting on either side of
5550-431: Was the model of moral values and education championed by Dr Arnold of Rugby School , which emphasised individual self-worth and qualities associated with "good character": trust and reliability, honesty, openness, self-discipline, self-reliance, independent thought and action, friendship, and concern for the common good over selfish or sectional interests". Further, according to Lindsay, Bean's preoccupation with character
5625-648: Was the original name of the whole of the Wanniassa and Lanyon areas. McLaren sold the property to Thomas Macquoid in 1835. Macquoid was the Sheriff of the Supreme Court who had arrived in the colony in 1829 (Lamb 2006) and died by his own hand on 12 October 1841. Thomas Macquoid who was the Sheriff of the Supreme Court of NSW bought the property in 1835 and named it "Waniassa" after an estate in Java where he had grown coffee crops for
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