![]() ![]() ![]() Bean narrowly beat Keith Murdoch of the Melbourne Herald in the Australian Journalists' Association nomination ballot and was elected to be Australia's first official war correspondent. In September 1914, each dominion was invited to attach an official correspondent to its forces. From June 1914, he wrote a daily commentary on the European crisis. In 1913, he returned to Sydney, but he disliked his job as leader-writer and took several assignments out of the country. He reported on the building of the three Royal Australian Navy cruisers: HMA Ships Australia, Melbourne and Sydney. to an old mate'.Ä«etween 19, Bean lived with his parents in London while he represented the Sydney Morning Herald there. He finished it with a prophecy that if ever England were in trouble, she would discover in Australia 'the quality of sticking. During this time, he wrote a passage about comradeship in outback Australia. This assignment influenced his perceptions of nationality and the differences between urban and rural Australians, as well as between Englishmen and Australians. In 1909, he was sent to far west New South Wales to write a series of articles on the wool industry. Finding that he preferred writing over teaching or law, Bean became a junior reporter on the Sydney Morning Herald in 1908. While Bean was establishing his law practice, he wrote some articles for the Evening News, a newspaper edited by AB 'Banjo' Paterson, and worked as an assistant master at Sydney Grammar School. ![]() He was admitted to the New South Wales bar that year. He taught briefly at Brentwood School in Essex, where his father was headmaster, and then sailed to Sydney in 1904. He was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1903. He graduated with second-class honours and then studied law. In 1898, he won a scholarship to Oxford where he studied classics. In his last year at school, he became house captain. In England, Charles attended Clifton, a school rich in British imperial tradition. In 1889, his father resigned owing to ill health and took his family to England. Charles Edwin Woodrow (CEW) Bean, historian and journalist, was born on 18 November 1879 in Bathurst, where his father was headmaster of All Saints' College. ![]()
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