Charles Edwin Woodrow BEAN MID

BEAN, Charles Edwin Woodrow

Service Number: Officer
Enlisted: 28 September 1914, Appointed Official War Correspondent - HQ Staff
Last Rank: Captain
Last Unit: Australian Corps Headquarters
Born: Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, 18 November 1879
Home Town: Collaroy, Warringah, New South Wales
Schooling: Sydney Grammar School, Clifton School & Oxford University, England
Occupation: Barrister, Jounalist, War Correspondent, Author and Historian
Died: Natural causes, Concord, New South Wales, Australia, 30 August 1968, aged 88 years
Cemetery: Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW
Private cremation
Memorials: Sydney Grammar School WW1 Honour Board, Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail Record of War Service, The Pillars of Bathurst, NSW
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World War 1 Service

28 Sep 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Captain, 1st Division Headquarters, Appointed Official War Correspondent - HQ Staff
21 Oct 1914: Involvement AIF WW1, Press Representative, Headquarters Staff, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1,

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21 Oct 1914: Embarked AIF WW1, Press Representative, Officer, Headquarters Staff, HMAT Orvieto, Melbourne
25 Apr 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Captain, Headquarters Staff, ANZAC / Gallipoli
7 Aug 1915: Wounded AIF WW1, Press Representative, 1st Division Headquarters, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli, GSW (right thigh)
20 Apr 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Press Representative, I ANZAC Corps Headquarters
13 Jul 1916: Honoured Mention in Dispatches
31 May 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Press Representative, 3rd Division Headquarters
13 Jun 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Press Representative, 1st Division Headquarters, ANZAC / Gallipoli
5 Jan 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Press Representative, Admin HQ - London
1 Jul 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Press Representative, Australian Corps Headquarters, Joined in France, ex England
30 Jun 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Captain

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Biography contributed by Julianne Ryan

Captain Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (Official WWI Correspondent)

28/09/1914  enlisted in 1st Division Headquarters

21/10/1914  embarked Port of Melbourne, VIC onboard HMAT A3 Oriveto
                   as Press Corresonpdent, 1st Australian Division, Headquarters

01/04/1919  Returned to Australia onboard HT Kildonian Castle

30/06/1919  discharged from service

January 1921  Bean married Ethel Clara Young

Worked as Official Historian, writing the Official History of Australia at War 1914-1918 at
Tuggeranong Homestead

30/08/1968  Passed away at the Concord Repat Hospital, Concord, NSW

Brother:
Major  John Willoughby Butler Bean – Australian Army Medical Corps
20/06/1914  enlisted (34 years of age) – b. 01/01/1881
20/10/1914  embarked Sydney, NSW onboard HMAT A14 Euripides
                  as Captain with 3rd Infantry Battalion, Headquarters
05/09/1915  promoted to Major
23/10/1918  Returned to Australia
30/04/1919  discharged from service
1969            passed away in St Leonards, NSW

Relatives in service (cousins):
2nd Lieutenant  Edward Lionel Austin Butler – 12th Australian Infantry Battalion
Father Edward Henry Butler and Fanny BUTLER, lived at Sandy Bay, Tasmania
02/08/1915  enlisted (32 years of age)
29/03/1916  embarked Port of Melbourne, VIC onboard RMS Orontes
                   as a 2nd Lieutenant with 12th Infantry Battalion, 16th reinforcements
23/08/1916  Multiple shell wounds to legs, lost right leg, received in action - died of wounds
                   at Mouquet Farm, France
buried in:     Puchevillers British Cemetery, France
                   Plot III, Row A, Grave 10

4922  2nd Lieutenant Colin Edmund Alleyne Chalmers –  52nd Infantry Battalion
23/08/1915  enlisted  (33 years of age)
18/02/1916  embarked Port of Melbourne, VIC onboard HMAT A70 Ballarat
                   as a 2nd Lieutenant with 12th Infantry Battalion, 15th reinforcements
07/06/1917  Killed in Action, Messines, Belgium

Buried in:     Derry House Cemetery No.2, Belgium
                   Plot I, Row B, Grave 22

1590 2nd Lieutenant Brian Nairn Butler – 12th Infantry Battalion
14/12/1914  enlisted (22 years of age)
19/02/1915  embarked Port of Melbourne, VIC onboard HMAT A54 Runic
                   as a Private with 12th Infantry Battalion, 3rd reinforcements
18/09/1918  Killed in Action

Buried in:     Jeancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France   Plot III, Row B, Grave 5

Lte Colonel Harry Nairn Butler MID, DSO - Australian Army Medical Corps
--  brother of 2nd Lieutenant Brian Nairn Butler --
21/08/1914 enlisted (28 years of age) - b. 31/03/1886
02/11/1914 embarked Hobart, TAS onboard HMAT A13 Katuna
                  as a Major with 3rd Field Ambulance C Squadron
04/05/1917 Returned to Australia
22/02/1955 passed away
cemated in: Cornelian Bay Cemetery & Crematorium, TAS
                  Derwent Gardens

59/546 Captain Arthur Mainwaring Maxwell, MID, DSO MC – 52nd Infantry Battalion
24/09/1914    enlisted in Sydney, NSW (26 years of age) – b. 8/6/1888 Hobart, TAS
21/12/1914    embarked Sydney, NSW onboard HMAT A29 Suevic
                     as a Corporal with 6th Light Horse Regiment, A Squadron
09/05/1915    proceeded to Gallipoli
20/05/1915    promoted to Corporal – 3rd Light Horse Regiment
14/03/1916    taken on strength 52nd Infantry Battalion
17/03/1916    promoted to 2nd Lieutenant 52nd Infantry Battalion
17/06/1916    promoted to Lieutenant
14/11/1916    Awarded MILITARY CROSS
18/04/1917    promoted to Captain 52nd Infantry Battalion
25/08/1917    Awarded DSO
28/12/1917    Awarded MID – London Gazette
16/05/1918    taken on strength to 51st Infantry Battalion
25/05/1918    attached to 12th Inf Brigade, HQ
19/08/1918    attached to 1st Div, HQ
16/06/1919    Returned to Australia onboard HT Ormonde
11/07/1919    Awarded MID – London Gazette
Married:        Marion Grey Wemyss Maxwell  (d. 4/11/1970)
Children:       Sally, Meg and Bill Maxwell
17/06/1966    passed away
Cremated –   St Simon and St Judes Cemetery, Bowral NSW
                    Columbarium 1 section

447 Captain Duncan Struan Maxwell MC – 51st Infantry Battalion  
-- brother of Captain Arthur Mainwaring Maxwell --
19/08/1914  enlisted (22 years of age)  - b. 08/01/1892
20/10/1914  embarked Tasmania onboard HMAT A2 Geelong
                   as a Private with 3rd Light Horse Regiment, C Squadron
09/05/1915  proceeded to Gallipoli, ANZAC
03/12/1915  promoted to Lance Corporal – 3rd Light Horse Regiment
17/03/1916  promoted to 2nd Lieutenant – 52nd Infantry Battalion
17/06/1916  promoted to Lieutenant
14/11/1916  Awarded MILITARY CROSS – London Gazette
01/04/1917  taken on strength 4th Div, HQ
21/06/1917  promoted to Captain – 52nd Infantry Battalion
16/05/1918  transferred to 51st Infantry Battalion
31/07/1918  Returned to Australia onboard HT D17 Malta
02/12/1919  discharged from service

1921  Bachelor of Medicine – University of Sydney, NSW

Interwar Service
09/07/1927 Captain – Reserve of Officers
14/08/1939  Major  – Reserve of Officers – 56th Infantry Battalion
25/11/1939  Commanding Officer – 56th Infantry Battalion

Married:   Marion Wistie Sly   (b.30/06/1888 Torrington Rd, Strathfield, NSW)
Marion's parents - Richard Meares Sly and Constance Adelaide Sly (nee Mullens)
25/03/1969  Marion passed away in Sydney, New South Wales

WWII  -  NX12610 Brigadier Duncan Struan Maxwell MC - 27th Inf Brigade, HQ
01/06/1940  re-enlisted into WWII at Cootamundra, NSW (48 yrs 5mths)
01/07/1940  promoted to Lte-Colonel - 2/19th Infantry Battalion
26/07/1940  taken on strength 2/19th Infantry Battalion
03/02/1941  embarked HMT Queen Mary
18/02/1941  disembarked into Singapore
01/08/1941  promoted to Brigadier – HQ AIF Malaya
01/08/1941  appointed to Command 27th Australian Infantry Brigade
21/11/1941   promoted to Colonel
15/02/1942  taken POW – Singapore Island
18/03/1942   admitted to Australian General Hospital
28/11/1942   embarked Singapore for Japan
28/04/1943   POW – Taiwan Camp
14/10/1944   POW – interned in  Hoten Camp, China
27/09/1945   Returned to Australia – Brigadier 27th Inf Brigade, HQ
03/09/1946  discharged from service
04/09/1946  Retired – honourary  Brigadier

21/12/1969  passed away in Chatswood, NSW

Submitted by Julianne T Ryan.  06/03/2017.  Lest we forget.

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