Charles Bean

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Charles Bean
Portrait by George Lambert, 1924
Born	Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (1879-11-18)18 November 1879 Bathurst, New South Wales
Died	30 August 1968(1968-08-30) (aged 88) Concord, New South Wales
Awards	Mentioned in despatches (1915) Chesney Gold Medal (1930)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Influences	Banjo Paterson
Academic work
Main interests	Australian military history First World War
Notable works	Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918
Influenced	Gavin Long Bill Gammage

Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (18 November 1879 – 30 August 1968), usually identified as C. E. W. Bean, was a historian and one of Australia's official war correspondents. He was editor and principal author of the 12-volume Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, and a primary advocate for establishing the Australian War Memorial (AWM).

According to the Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War, no other Australian has been more influential in shaping the way the First World War is remembered in Australia.^[1][2]

When Bean died on 30 August 1968, aged 88, an obituary written by Guy Harriott, associate editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and a former war correspondent, described Bean as being "one of Australia's most distinguished men of letters".^[3]