Charles Bean

Who was Charles Bean?

Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, usually identified as C.E.W. Bean, was an Australian schoolmaster, judge's associate, barrister, journalist, war correspondent and historian.

Bean is renowned as the editor of the 12-volume Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918. Bean wrote Volumes I to VI himself, dealing with the Australian Imperial Force at Gallipoli, France and Belgium. Bean was instrumental in the establishment of the Australian War Memorial, and of the creation and popularisation of the ANZAC legend.