First NameCharlesMiddle NameEdwin WoodrowLast NameBeanOther NamesC.E.W. BeanDate of Birth18 November 1879Place of BirthBathurst-NSWDate of Death30 August 1968Place of DeathConcord-NSWOccupationHistorian and official war correspondentPositions HeldSydney Morning Herald Junior Reporter - June 1908 Official War Correspondent 1914-1918Author of WW1 Official HistoryChairman of the Commonwealth Archives Committee 1942Chairman of the Board of Management of the War Memorial 1952AuthorBiography
"His official history of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 is his greatest monument, and the Memorial that he first imagined in the summer of 1916 has become a major repository of Australian military history, a museum and a memorial to the fallen. Included in its collection are the voluminous notebooks, letters and diaries that Bean started when he sailed from Australia with the First AIF in November 1914." From the Australian War Memorial page about Charles Bean.
