Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/219/1 - August 1918

Conflict:
First World War, 1914–18
Subject:
  • Documents and letters
  • Shorthand
Status:
Awaiting approval
Accession number:
RCDIG1066677
Difficulty:

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AWM3S Official History, 1974-18 War: Records of C E W Bean, Official Historian. Diaries and Notebooks Hem number: 3DR1606/21917 Title: Notebook, August 1978 includes references to the 37th Battalion, Provart, Bray and Clery-Suzanne and contains Sketch maps. AWMISS-3DRI606/219H
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AWM3S8
Official History,
1914-18 War: Records of C E W Bean,
Official Historian.
Diaries and Notebooks
Item number: 3DRL606/219/1
Title: Notebook, August 1918
includes references to the 37th Battalion,
Proyart, Bray and Clery-Suzanne and contains
Sketch maps.
AWM38-3DRL606/219/1
 

 

Original DIARY No. 219
AWM38 3DR 606 ITEM 219[1]
DIARIES AND NOTES OF C. E. W. BEAN
CONCERNING THE WAR OF 1914-1918
THE use of these diaries and notes is subject to conditions laid down in the terms
of gift to the Australian War Memorial. But, apart from those terms, I wish the
following circumstances and considerations to be brought to the notice of every
reader and writer who may use them.
These writings represent only what at the moment of making them I believed to be
true. The diaries were jotted down almost daily with the object of recording what
was then in the writer's mind. Often he wrote them when very tired and half asleep;
also, not infrequently, what he believed to be true was not so —but it does not
follow that he always discovered this, or remembered to correct the mistakes when
discovered. Indeed, he could not always remember that he had written them.
These records should, therefore, be used with great caution, as relating only what
their author, at the time of writing, believed. Further, he cannot, of course, vouch
for the accuracy of statements made to him by others and here recorded. But he
did try to ensure such accuracy by consulting, as far as possible, those who had
seen or otherwise taken part in the events. The constant falsity of second-hand
evidence (on which a large proportion of war stories are founded) was impressed
upon him by the second or third day of the Gallipoli campaign, notwithstanding that
those who passed on such stories usually themselves believed them to be true. All
second-hand evidence herein should be read with this in mind.
16 Sept., 1946. C. E. W. BEAN. 
AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
ACCESS STATUS
OPEN

 

Diagram - see original document
(Sketch by Capt Heberle 37 Bn)

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Diagram - see original document

Dictated –
451  – 456
(Capt Heberle's 
map - my wording)
[[shorthand]]

 
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