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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).
Born in Bathurst, Charles Bean (1879-1968) spent most of his formative years in Britain where he attended Clifton and read classics at Oxford. He returned to Australia in 1904, was admitted to the New South Wales Bar and spent the following years travelling throughout the state.
Bean had come to the view that “the consciousness of Australian nationhood was born” on April 25, 1915, and this belief informed his writings, his vision of Australia, and how the nation should honour the sacrifice of the Anzacs.
Born in 1879 in the thriving farming town of Bathurst inland across the Blue Mountains from Sydney, Charles was the son of Edwin Bean, the headmaster of All Saints College.
Oct 19, 2016 · Born in Bathurst, Charles Bean (1879-1968) spent most of his formative years in Britain where he attended Clifton and read classics at Oxford. He returned to Australia in 1904, was admitted to the New South Wales Bar and spent the following years travelling throughout the state.
Dawn of the Legend - Charles Bean. Australian-born, though raised in Britain, Charles Bean returned home in 1904, aged 25. He became a newspaper writer and in 1909 he was sent to western New South Wales to write about the wool industry.
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Many of Australia’s historical accounts of the Western Front originate from the writings of the country’s Official War Correspondent Charles Bean. Over 1914-18, Bean travelled to locations where Australian soldiers served, and provided Australians at home with reports of our troops’ experiences on the frontline.
