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The Official History of
Australia
in the War of 1914-1918
Volume I
The Story of ANZAC
From the Outbreak of
War
to the End of the First Phase
of the Gallipoli Campaign,
May 4, 1915
by
C. E. W. Bean
(Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean)
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This is
the 1988 Reprinted Paperback Edition with a new Introduction
“C. E. W.
Bean was a remarkable man. He was Australia's
official correspondent during World War I. At
Gallipoli from the landing on 25 April until
December 1915, he was wounded in action but refused
to be evacuated. He acted as a messenger and brought
in wounded under fire. Indeed he was even
recommended for the Military Cross but as a civilian
was ineligible to receive it.”
“This first volume starts with
the outbreak of war and ends on 4 May 1915 - just
nine days after the fateful Gallipoli landing. It
sets the whole campaign in perspective, starting
with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
of Austria in June of 1914 and the almost inevitable
build up to full scale invasion and war. The
Australians and New Zealanders were quick to respond
to the calls of the mother country, recruiting for
the AIF beginning six days after the outbreak of
war. And by early November the first Australian and
New Zealand contingent was able to sail from
Australia arriving in Cairo in early December.”
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The Story of ANZAC
from the
outbreak of war to the end of the first phase of the
Gallipoli Campaign, May 4, 1915
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of
Maps
List of Sketch Maps
Abbreviations
Chronology to the end of April 1915
Preface to University of' Queensland Press Edition
by Robert O'Neill
Introduction to University of Queensland Press
Edition by K. S. Inglis
Preface to Third Edition by C. E. W. Bean
Preface to First Edition by C. E. W. Bean
Introduction – The Australian Nation and the War
Chapter I – Australia’s Position at the Outbreak
Chapter II – The Australian Offer
Chapter III – The “A.I.F.”
Chapter IV – The First Australian Staff
Chapter V – The First Contingent Sails
Chapter VI – The Voyage and the Emden
Chapter VII – The Training in the Desert
Chapter VIII – The Turkish Expedition against Egypt
Chapter IX – The Expedition to the Dardanelles
Chapter X – The Corps Leaves Egypt
Chapter XI – The Gaba Tepe Plan
Chapter XII – The Landing at Gaba Tepe
Chapter XIII – Baby 700
Chapter XIV – The Loss of Baby 700
Chapter XV – The Extreme Left
Chapter XVI – The 3rd Brigade on the“400 Plateau”
Chapter XVII – The 2nd Brigade on the “400 Plateau”
Chapter XVIII – The Advance to Pine Ridge
Chapter XIX – MacLaurin’s Hill and the Bloody Angle
Chapter XX – Mustafa Kemal’s Counter-Attack and the First Night
Chapter XXI – The 4th Battalion’s Advance on the “400 Plateau”
Chapter XXII – The Second Turkish Counter–Attack
Chapter XXIII – The Relief by the Marines
Chapter XXIV – ANZAC Beach
Chapter XXV – The Clearing of the Wounded
Chapter XXVI – End of the First Phase of the Campaign
Glossary
Index
List of Illustrations
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Major-General Sir William Throsby
Bridges
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General Bridges and his Staff, Mena
Camp, 1914
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First Australian and New Zealand
convoy crossing the Indian Ocean
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The Ibuki crossing to place herself
between the convoy and the Emden
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Australian transports meeting at Port
Said
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Lieut.-General Sir W. R. Birdwood at
Anzac
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A field day of the 1st Australian
Division. General Bridges and his Staff watching from the foot of
the Pyramids
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A field day at Mena, Egypt, 5th March,
1915
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One of the gaps in the eastern bank of
the Suez Canal down which the Turks dragged their pontoons from the
desert, 3rd February, 1915
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Suez Canal south of Tussum, from the
shelf across which the Turks dragged their boats, showing the bank
defended by Indians and New Zealanders
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Kilid Bahr Plateau from near Gaba Tepe
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Transports in Mudros Harbour, Lemnos,
15th April, 1915
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Colonel E. G. Sinclair-MacLagan
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Slopes first rushed by the 3rd Brigade
at Anzac
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Ari Burnu, from Plugge’s Plateau,
looking down upon the Beach, 25th April, 1915
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Plugge’s Plateau from its inland side,
showing zig-zag path down which the Turks retired
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1st Brigade rowing to the Beach, and
empty boats returning at about 9.45 am., 25th April, 1915
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The Sphinx, overlooking North Beach,
Anzac
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The Razor Edge, connecting Plugge’s
Plateau with Russell’s Top
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The Landing. Transports moving between
the battleships off Gaba Tepe about 6 a.m., 25th April, 1915
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The Landing. Sunrise over Chunuk Bair,
25th April, 1915
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Headquarters of 1st Australian
Division settling on the Beach, 10 a.m., 25th April, 1915
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Russell’s Top looking backwards from
Baby 700
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The point on Battleship Hill reached
by Captain Tulloch’s party on the morning of 25th April, 1915,
showing the Narrows in the distance
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Russell’s Top, The Nek, Baby 700, and
Battleship Hill from No. 1 Outpost
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Monash Valley, showing how Baby 700
commanded it
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ustralians going into action over the
top of Plugge’s Plateau about noon, 25th April, 1915
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Malone’s Gully on the seaward side of
the Nek
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Nibrunesi Point from Walker’s Ridge,
showing No. I Outpost and the Fisherman’s Hut
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Head of Owen‘s Gully showing the two
lobes of 400 Plateau (Johnston’s Jolly and Lone Pine)
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Owen’s Gully showing the entrance to
“The Cup”
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The Third Ridge (Gun Ridge) from
Johnston’s Jolly, showing the points reached by Loutit and Ryder
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Part of Headquarters, 1st Australian
Division, landing from the Ribble about 10 a.m., 25th April, 1915
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Shallow pits scratched by infantry on
25th or 26th April, near the mountain guns
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Southern spurs of the 400 Plateau
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Little Ari Burnu (Queensland Point) on
26th April, 1915, showing artillery digging in on its summit, and
the crowd on the Beach
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Artillerymen and others dragging a gun
up Little Ari Burnu (Queensland Point), 26th April, 1915
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Mustafa Kemal Bey, Commander, 19th
Turkish Division, who directed the counter-attack against the A. and
N.Z. Army Corps
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A gun of Major Hughes’s Battery (7th)
in the firing-line at Bolton’s Ridge
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View from the barrel of a gun of the
7th Battery, showing the Wheatfield across which the Turks attacked
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Mule Valley, showing the ground facing
the right of Quinn’s and left of Courtney’s
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Colonel H. N. MacLaurin
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Supports on the rear slope of Steele’s
Post, 3rd May, 1915
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Posts on side of Monash Valley, from
Russell’s Top
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Ledge of Monash Valley immediately
behind Steele’s Post, showing ends of communication trenches to the
firing line
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Anzac Beach from the Australian
Casualty Clearing Station at its southern end
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Anzac from Gaba Tepe
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First Headquarters of General Bridges
at Anzac
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Wounded coming down Monash and
Shrapnel Gullies past 3rd Battalion Aid Post, 26th April, 1915
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Beach at Gaba Tepe where Leane’s
raiding party landed
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Gaba Tepe, showing bank under which
Leane’s party sheltered
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The attack upon Gaba Tepe, 4th May,
1915
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Quinn’s Post from its extreme left,
showing the bomb-stop separating Australian and Turkish trenches
Plus
numerous maps and sketch maps
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The Story of ANZAC
from the
outbreak of war to the end of the first phase of the
Gallipoli Campaign, May 4, 1915
Introduction to the QUP
Edition by K. S. Inglis
“DEAREST PARENTS”, wrote Charles Bean at 8.35 P.M. on 24 April 1915: “The
date is the only thing that I can indicate our position by – you will know
by the time two or three days have passed where we are and what we are
doing.”1 Edwin and Lucy Bean were living in retirement in Melbourne. Their
thirty–five year old son was aboard the transport Minnewaska steaming from
the Greek island of Lemnos towards Turkey, where he would land next morning
and begin to chronicle the performance of men in the Australian Imperial
Force.
Life had prepared Bean well for his task. His birth was Australian, his
upbringing imperial. His father had been educated at Clifton College, one of
the newer public schools, and the University of Oxford, and was among young
men invited to the Australian colonies in the 1870s to help give sons of
well-to-do people as nearly an English education as could be managed out
here. When Charles was born his father had been in Australia six years and
was headmaster of All Saints’ College, Bathurst. As soon as Charles could
read he began to learn the legends of empire. “Australians, almost as much
as English”, he was to write, “had been brought up on tales of Crecy and
Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo, the Indian Mutiny and the Crimean, Afghan,
Zulu and other British wars; the bound volumes of the English illustrated
papers, with pictures of some of these campaigns, were in constant use in
many homes”.2 The family moved to England in 1889, and Charles attended his
father’s old school. Clifton was now rich in imperial tradition: such old
boys as Douglas Haig and William Birdwood were serving in the Bengal Lancers
and the Egyptian Army; and while Bean was at school another old boy, Henry
Newbolt, published verses in which the cry “Play up! play up! and play the
game!”, learned on the school cricket field, saves the day on the field of
battle. Like his father he went on to Oxford, reading the Greek and Latin
classics, and like his father he tried without success to get into the
Indian Civil Service. Then he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in
London, before sailing in 1904 for Sydney, where he dabbled in law and
schoolteaching before deciding to go in for journalism.
In 1907 the Sydney Morning Herald printed a series of articles in which Bean
perceived Australians as the best of Britons, and celebrated the bushman
rather as Kipling did other outriders of empire, invoking Kipling’s phrase
“they little know of England who only England know” and suggesting that the
bushman’s life turned him into a natural warrior. He joined the staff of the
Sydney Morning Herald in 1908, and in 1909 was sent to the far west of New
South Wales to write about the wool industry. “The young reporter was not
enthusiastic…” he admitted later, until it “flashed upon him that the most
important product of the wool industry was men; it was responsible for
creating some of the outstanding national types.”3 The real Australia, he
called the wool country, and he savoured the idiom and bearing of its
people. The articles were published as On the Wool Track (London, 1910).
This assignment produced another series of articles, based on a journey down
the Darling river in a small steamer; these too became a book, whose title
referred jocularly to a great imperial preoccupation of the day: The
Dreadnought of the Darling (London, 1911). The author was later to cherish a
passage which began with an account of comradeship in the back country and
ended with a prophecy that if ever England were in trouble, she would
discover “in the younger land, existing in quite unsuspected quarters, a
thousand times deeper and more effective than the more showy protestations
which sometimes appropriate the title of ‘imperialism’, the quality of
sticking…to an old mate”. “Mate” was an important word for him; and although
by now his accent was not far from standard English, he could always be
picked as an Australian by his pronunciation of it.
From 1910 to 1912 Bean represented the Herald in London, living with his
parents, who returned to Australia soon after he did. Late in June 1914 he
began to write a daily commentary for the Herald on the European crisis
which led to war at the beginning of August.
In September the Imperial Government invited each dominion to attach an
official correspondent to its forces. George Pearce, Minister for Defence in
the federal Labor Government, asked the Australian Journalists’ Association
to nominate a man, and in a ballot of members Bean won narrowly from Keith
Murdoch of the Melbourne Herald. His father drove him, on 15 October, to
Port Melbourne, where he boarded the troopship Orvieto and sailed with the
first contingent of Australians who had volunteered for the war.
From Colombo on 15 November he sent back to the newspapers his first reports
of Australian involvement in war, describing the sinking of the German
raider SMS Emden by HMAS Sydney. Between Colombo and Aden he interviewed
many witnesses to fill out his knowledge of that historic encounter. As a
craftsman, he reflected, he was doing unfamiliar work. “Generally I have had
to describe and explain merely a state of affairs which have already become
facts - the wool trade; the life in the bush or on the rivers. Here it is a
new set of facts every day.” He wrote these words in a diary which he had
decided to make, as he noted on 27 November, “my chief personal record of
the war”.4 Already he was thinking not only of newspaper readers but of
posterity, for there was an informal understanding between Pearce and Bean
that the correspondent would later be the historian, and in the weeks
between the Australians’ arrival in Egypt on 3 December and their departure
for the Dardanelles, Bean spent what hours he could on “the book”, intending
at this time to write a single volume. When he had to compose a painful
despatch in January about why a ship-load of “bad hats” were being sent
home, he imagined writing quite otherwise later. “I think the Australian
will have to rely on the good things he does to wipe out the bad ones…I
fully expect the men of this force will do things when the real day comes
which will make the true history of this war possible to be written.” Once
Bean knew that he and the AIF were heading for the Dardanelles in an
amphibious operation such as had never before been attempted, the
prospective historian was elated. “It is the chance of a life time”, he
wrote on 8 April. “It means I shall eventually be able to give the
Australian people an account of one of the most interesting events in
History from a position closer than that of any observer who has been
allowed to write his impressions in the present war.”
Senior Australian officers took him into their confidence. Major-General
Bridges, commander of the AIF, “treated me as one of his staff,” Bean wrote
later, “except in this, that he gave me no orders & left me to write & do
what I pleased”.5 It was otherwise with the British. On 1 April, the day all
leave was cancelled, Bean had still not received the permission he needed
from imperial authorities to go to the front. Three days later, as he
packed, his request was somewhere in London between the War Office and the
Admiralty. He was given permission to go on 8 April, after intercession by
the Australian High Commissioner, Sir George Reid - but only on condition
that he did not write a word until sanctioned to do so. General Sir Ian
Hamilton, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, had
been amiable towards the Australian correspondent in conversation at
Alexandria on 31 March; but on 19 April, when Bean asked Hamilton’s chief of
staff to allow him to write on terms lately granted to Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett,
representing the newspapers of London, he was met with rude condescension.
“I must say that I breathe again to be back amongst Australian manners after
these experiences of the English official”, Bean wrote, and went on, in a
phrase recalling Kipling’s, to deplore the inability of “the run of
Englishmen who have never left England” to treat a stranger properly.
(Though he did mention other names, he was distinguishing this type from
such officers as Major-General W.R. Birdwood, commander of the Australian
and New Zealand Army Corps, who had been born in India and served there, and
who in Bean’s estimate was good with strangers, including Australians. As
Bean wrote in this book: “It was Birdwood’s nature to look past the forms at
the man himself” [see p. 120].) Bean was appalled by the English reluctance
to accredit the correspondent of “an Australian force come all across the
world to help them in the stiffest business they may yet have undertaken…”
If anything had been needed to seal the reporter-historian’s Australian
patriotism as he set off with the AIF for its first battle, that encounter
did it. A cable from Hamilton to London eventually got Bean his sanction,
but even then his first two despatches from Gallipoli were held up by
English officials in Alexandria and did not reach Australian papers until
nearly a week after they had printed Ashmead-Bartlett’s account of the
landing, composed for the press of London.
Bean went ashore at Anzac Cove about 10.15 A.M. on 25 April, not quite six
hours after the first Australian had landed. He was to stay on the peninsula
for the whole of the campaign, the only correspondent to see it from
beginning to end, and having, as he hoped, a perfect vantage point for
recording the Australians in action. Day after day, night after night, he
set down in his diaries what he was seeing and hearing and what men said
when he asked them about their experiences. Like everybody else on both
sides he got little sleep during the first week of the struggle. At midnight
on 30 April he was lying in his dugout when he heard that the Turks had
broken through the Australians’ line. He asked where. An officer told him,
and added: “I hope you have your field dressing with you.” He set off at
once. “I…didn’t much want to go but I thought this is a show I ought not to
miss – it may mean heavy hand to hand fighting & I may hear the Turks
charging and shouting ‘Allah’ & see what a Turkish charge is like.” That
report turned out to be false; but there were plenty more “shows” to
observe, including an unsuccessful attack by Australian and New Zealand
soldiers on 2 and 3 May in which about a thousand of them were killed. He
wrote many pages in the diary on 3 May, often falling asleep as he
scribbled.
The terrible reality of warfare soon made him discard part of the vocabulary
men of his generation and class had been brought up to use about deeds that
won the empire. He stopped calling a bloody exchange of bullets, bayonets,
bombs and shells a “show”; and on 4 May, the quietest day so far, as he sat
in spring sunshine, scarcely able to believe that the distant crack of a
sniper’s bullet was not ball hitting bat in the nets at Clifton College, he
wrote a simple sentence that completed one stage of his self-education as
war historian: “I don’t know what a ‘spirited attack’ means.”
This volume ends with that quiet day. “The book” about the AIF was to become
many books as the war dragged on and Bean resolved to offer as memorial to
the soldiers a full and accurate account of what they had done, conceiving
it to be his duty, as he puts it in the preface, “to record the plain and
absolute truth so far as it was within his limited power to compass it” (see
p. lxiv). The modesty was genuine; but he knew that he was uniquely well
placed to do the job, having observed the men of the AIF at close hand for
four years. The odds must have been long against his surviving it all to
become their historian.
Early in 1919 Bean went back to Gallipoli, inspecting the field of battle as
Turks had known it and talking with Turkish officers. Late in the year, the
federal Government having accepted his proposal for a vast official history,
he and his staff moved to the homestead of Tuggeranong, about twenty
kilometres from Canberra, in wool country. There he met and married Ethel
Clare Young, a nursing sister at the Queanbeyan hospital. Within a year he
had finished his book, which runs close to a quarter of a million words. It
appeared in October 1921, eight years earlier than the first volume of the
British official history of the Gallipoli campaign.
The historian’s own diaries and his notes of what other people told him
formed a larger part of his sources for The Story of Anzac than for his
volumes on France, both because conditions on Gallipoli did not encourage
the making and preserving of formal documents and because the AIF had as yet
no War Records section.
Bean the journalist pursued every informant who might help him get the story
right and complete: through most of 1920, until the volume went to press, he
was in correspondence with men lately returned, about episodes they had
lived through. Bean the lawyer was rigorously sceptical towards all
testimony, his own included. During the fighting on 2 May a medical officer
had said to him: “I am convinced that the stories brought down by the
wounded are absolutely valueless as evidence.” When Bean deposited his
diaries in the Australian War Memorial in 1946, he stuck on each of the 226
notebooks a warning that began” “These writings represent only what at the
moment of making them I believed to be true.” As he says in the preface to
this volume, he was “driven by experience to adopt the legal rules of
evidence, discarding all hearsay except under special guarantees” (see p.
lxiii). Bean the classical scholar was kept firmly in check, except in the
closing paragraphs, where he let himself praise the homely heroes of his
epic in a manner informed by his feeling for the language and literature of
ancient Greece.
Perhaps inevitably, most of Bean’s informants were officers: the long list
of prefatory acknowledgement (see pp. lxii-lxiii) includes only one
sergeant, two corporals, and two privates; not until Bill Gammage’s The
Broken Years (Canberra: ANU Press, 1974) was there a book about the AIF
based on the perceptions of the men in the ranks. The soldiers are
nevertheless the subject of Bean’s narrative to an extent unprecedented in
official military historiography and unmatched in the British official
volumes about the war.
In another respect the work was unusual – Bean believed unique – among
official war histories: it was subject to no censorship. The author
nevertheless imposed a sort of censorship on himself, by omitting nasty
details. His account of the misbehaviour in Egypt which forced Bridges to
send men home in disgrace is much less vivid than the version in his diary.
The death of Lieutenant-Colonel G.F.Braund, shot by a sentry who took him
for a Turk, is reported, but in the small print of a footnote (see p.599n)
and without the information, noted in the diary, that the sentry’s shot blew
the top of Braund’s head off. The reader is given no help in these pages to
imagine what bullets, shrapnel and bayonets do to flesh and blood and bone;
and the only photograph of wounded men shows them in need of a helping hand,
but whole (see facing p.553).
The historian had emancipated himself from the rhetoric of the illustrated
papers, but his pursuit of the truth stopped short of horror.
The book begins with a sketch of the society which had nurtured the soldiers
and which had become Bean’s spiritual home since he returned to it in 1904.
Australians had developed “a peculiar independence of character”, an
indifference to rank and wealth, which had led some people to wonder whether
they would tolerate the discipline necessary for an effective army (see pp.
5–6). Certainly their officers could not treat them as if they were docile
Tommies (see pp. 47–48). But the recruits of 1914 proved easy to train, Bean
reports. “The bush still sets the standard of personal efficiency even in
the Australian cities. The bushman is the hero of the Australian boy; the
arts of the bush life are his ambition; his most cherished holidays are
those spent with country relatives or camping out. He learns something of
half the arts of a soldier by the time he is ten years old…” (see p.46).
So far as Australia held a prevailing creed, Bean suggests, “it was a
romantic one inherited from the gold-miner and the bushman, of which the
chief article was that a man should at all times and at any cost stand by
his mate” (see p.6). In resolving without question to go to war alongside
England, Australians were rallying to “an old friend in danger – Australia’s
oldest friend” (see p.15). And in the AIF, as at home, the strongest bond
was that between a man and his mate (see p.6).
In five chapters Bean describes the raising of the AIF, its journey to
Egypt, and its training in the desert. He gives one chapter to the Turkish
expedition against Egypt and one to the unsuccessful Allied naval attack on
the Dardanelles. Then he shows the men of the Australian and New Zealand
Army Corps leaving Egypt, and sets out the plan which delivered them to
Gallipoli.
Until he began writing, Bean intended to make this volume go as far as 29
June, devoting three chapters to events on 25 April, though keeping three
more chapters in hand for the landing if necessary. But the first day burst
the bounds he had set for it, occupying in the final version nine chapters,
of more than ninety thousand words – surely the most detailed account ever
given of a day in the lives of Australians. The day was already a legend,
and Anzac Day an institution (though not yet a national holiday), when Bean
sat down at Tuggeranong to write of it.
As an act of homage to brave men he wanted to reconstruct it in as much
detail as his sources would permit. He wanted also to show that the
soldiers’ inability “to effect a tithe of what had been intended” (see
p.602) on the peninsula was not their fault. The message of his
moment-by-moment, shot-by-shot narrative of the landing is that no men could
have taken more Turkish ground at Anzac Cove than those Australians and New
Zealanders did. (It is not always clear when he means his judgements of
Australian performance to apply also to New Zealanders.) With
uncharacteristic vehemence he rejects, as “utterly opposed to the facts”, a
common British view that Australian troops had “advanced in a
half-disciplined rush far beyond the positions which they should have
occupied” (see p.602). The Australian soldier, Bean declares, “had scattered
to the winds once and for all the notion often reiterated, that an
Australian force would be ineffective through lack of discipline” (see
p.605). Indeed, the Australians displayed in these first days what seemed to
Bean a remarkable kind of collective self-discipline, which obliged every
man to pay no heed at all to shell fire “even by so much as turning a head
or lowering the pannikin from which he was drinking” (see pp. 547–48).
Moreover, the landing dissolved all doubts about the relation between
Australian men and their officers: once the appointed leaders revealed
“character and competence”, they were given freely all the obedience they
needed (see pp. 549–50).
The main reasons for the failure of the plan to overrun the peninsula, Bean
concludes firmly, were that the invading army was only half large enough,
and that the planners had an unwarranted contempt for the Turkish army. Why
were these errors not corrected before they proved fatal? Because the
expedition was launched “without time for due thought or preparation,
against an enemy already prepared for it by the earlier naval attack” (see
p.604). The disaster evident by 4 May 1915 was of imperial, not colonial
making. Bean implies throughout the narrative and proclaims on its last page
that for the soldiers whom he was writing to honour – the two thousand dead
as well as the men still alive on 4 May – those ten days of Anzac were a
triumph.
K.S. Inglis
Department of History, RSSS
Australian National University
25 April 1980
Notes
1. This letter is in the Bean Collection, Australian War Memorial (AWM),
Canberra
2. C.E.W.Bean, Anzac to Amiens (Canberra: AWM, 1946), p.9.
3. C.E.W.Bean, On the Wool Track (Sydney: Sirius Books, 1963), p.vii.
4. The diaries are in the Bean Collection, AWM
5. C.E.W.Bean, “Account for Effie” (1924), in the Bean Collection, AWM.
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shadow on the inside edge of the final images. Colour reproduction is shown
as accurately as possible but please be aware that some colours
are difficult to scan and may result in a slight variation from
the colour shown below to the actual colour.
In line with eBay guidelines on picture sizes, some of the illustrations may
be shown enlarged for greater detail and clarity.
Please note that this is the PAPERBACK
edition:
For this reason there are fewer internal
scans to avoid creasing the spine.
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U.K. buyers:
To estimate the
“packed
weight” each book is first weighed and then
an additional amount of 150 grams is added to allow for the packaging
material (all
books are securely wrapped and posted in a cardboard book-mailer).
The weight of the book and packaging is then rounded up to the
nearest hundred grams to arrive at the postage figure. I make no charge for packaging materials and
do not seek to profit
from postage and packaging. Postage can be combined for multiple purchases. |
Packed weight of this item : approximately 1050 grams
Postage and payment options to U.K. addresses: |
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Details of the various postage options can be obtained by selecting
the “Postage and payments” option at the head of this
listing (above).
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Payment can be made by: debit card, credit
card (Visa or MasterCard, but not Amex), cheque (payable to
"G Miller", please), or PayPal.
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Please contact me with name,
address and payment details within seven days of the end of the
listing;
otherwise I reserve the right to cancel the sale and re-list the item.
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Finally, this should be an
enjoyable experience for both the buyer and seller and I hope
you will find me very easy to deal with. If you have a question
or query about any aspect (postage, payment, delivery options
and so on), please do not hesitate to contact me.
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International
buyers:
To estimate the
“packed
weight” each book is first weighed and then
an additional amount of 150 grams is added to allow for the packaging
material (all
books are securely wrapped and posted in a cardboard book-mailer).
The weight of the book and packaging is then rounded up to the
nearest hundred grams to arrive at the shipping figure.
I make no charge for packaging materials and do not
seek to profit
from shipping and handling.
Shipping can
usually be combined for multiple purchases
(to a
maximum
of 5 kilograms in any one parcel with the exception of Canada, where
the limit is 2 kilograms). |
Packed weight of this item : approximately 1050 grams
International Shipping options: |
Details of the postage options
to various countries (via Air Mail) can be obtained by selecting
the “Postage and payments” option at the head of this listing
(above) and then selecting your country of residence from the drop-down
list. For destinations not shown or other requirements, please contact me before buying.
Due to the
extreme length of time now taken for deliveries, surface mail is no longer
a viable option and I am unable to offer it even in the case of heavy items.
I am afraid that I cannot make any exceptions to this rule.
Payment options for international buyers: |
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Payment can be made by: credit card (Visa
or MasterCard, but not Amex) or PayPal. I can also accept a cheque in GBP [British
Pounds Sterling] but only if drawn on a major British bank.
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Regretfully, due to extremely
high conversion charges, I CANNOT accept foreign currency : all payments
must be made in GBP [British Pounds Sterling]. This can be accomplished easily
using a credit card, which I am able to accept as I have a separate,
well-established business, or PayPal.
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Please contact me with your name and address and payment details within
seven days of the end of the listing; otherwise I reserve the right to
cancel the sale and re-list the item.
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Finally, this should be an enjoyable experience for
both the buyer and seller and I hope you will find me very easy to deal
with. If you have a question or query about any aspect (shipping,
payment, delivery options and so on), please do not hesitate to contact
me.
Prospective international
buyers should ensure that they are able to provide credit card details or
pay by PayPal within 7 days from the end of the listing (or inform me that
they will be sending a cheque in GBP drawn on a major British bank). Thank you.
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(please note that the
book shown is for illustrative purposes only and forms no part of this
listing)
Book dimensions are given in
inches, to the nearest quarter-inch, in the format width x height.
Please
note that, to differentiate them from soft-covers and paperbacks, modern
hardbacks are still invariably described as being ‘cloth’ when they are, in
fact, predominantly bound in paper-covered boards pressed to resemble cloth. |
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Fine Books for Fine Minds |
I value your custom (and my
feedback rating) but I am also a bibliophile : I want books to arrive in the
same condition in which they were dispatched. For this reason, all books are
securely wrapped in tissue and a protective covering and are
then posted in a cardboard container. If any book is
significantly not as
described, I will offer a full refund. Unless the
size of the book precludes this, hardback books with a dust-jacket are
usually provided with a clear film protective cover, while
hardback books without a dust-jacket are usually provided with a rigid clear cover.
The Royal Mail, in my experience, offers an excellent service, but things
can occasionally go wrong.
However, I believe it is my responsibility to guarantee delivery.
If any book is lost or damaged in transit, I will offer a full refund.
Thank you for looking.
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Please also
view my other listings for
a range of interesting books
and feel free to contact me if you require any additional information
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