Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/286/1 - 1914 - 1918 - Part 1

AWM38
Official History,
1914-18 War: Records of C E W Bean,
Official Historian.
Diaries and Notebooks
Item number: 3DRL606/286/1
Title: Notebook, 1914-1918
First notebook (general notes, addresses, etc).
AWM38-3DRL606/286/1
 

(B)

Col. Griffiths.

Maj. Smith.

Maj. Corlette.                                                     
Maj. Boase.    Miss Newton              

Maj Stephens.   womens 
Capt Sheldon.
Bean.
Capt Colpitts.
Lt Hopkinson.                                                                       

 

Chas. E. W. Bean,

Official War Correspondent

Attached to Headquarters
1st Australian D

        ________

1st Australian Imperial 

         ________
My luggage -

Two Packages with Thos

Cook & Son. Egypt. Store 4/5/899.

Deposited 21 Jan 1915 & 5A

Receipt; Nos 927 & 1450

The cardboard hatbox afterwards

deposited & entered on same

receipt. 1. (One large cabin Trunk

                                   (used clothing

2. (One leather kit bag

               (used  clothing & [[?]]

3. One cardbd hatbox cont.

                       silk [[?hat]]

4. Green Canvas Bag

5. Leather suit case

& later receipts also in this
Book. Mar

3.5

[* Fathers letters 

- 15 . 16. 18 *]
 

Victoria 8001) Cambria [[?]]

5/13 51001
[Shorthand]
9/A?? 31 105

Caus & W/sea

[[from ?him

friends? ]]

[*Cobn Wines 

 ₤3 *]

w farmer why

  &
Percy Saele 

_____________________

Parents' Address:

Rev. E. Bean, Belgaum,

Lower Sandy Bay Road, Hobart

Tasmania

______________________

Brother: Capt J. W. B. Bean,

3rd Infantry Battalion

______________________

Sept 1914

 

Arthur Masen, 7 Moorshead Mansions

Maida Vale

Col. Clayton.

Head of Int Div

Mohammut Abdul

Halim

notes: 15/A 09148

35/A 60365

Thurs 

4 pm

Tea Cont.

Kasr-el-Nil:

Altaba-el-KChadr

Mr Hornblower

1215

y. 2552

[shorthand]

Mediaeval fr

Cairo

Stanley Lane Pools 

 

Mother's opinion of old furniture:

antique attracts me firstly bec. it h[as]

Letts's

lived in the past and breathes of it;

secondly because it is generally good of its

POCKET DIARY

kind; and sometimes - thirdly - it has

belonged to ones family in the past

is so far historical in a way I do not

all despise Early Victorian. Much of it is

very good & solid and comfortable. Indeed

BEING THE SIXTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HIS MAJESTY

prefer it to modern

KING GEORGE V. — (Accession, May 6, 1910).

Chippendale. I think

there is a reaction as far         Brentwood. California

as Early Victoria furniture

and buildings go. People       Brentwood - Essex.

recognise that they have       Brentwood. New York

their own place and time                              State

and are interesting

accordingly."                             Brentwood. S. Australia

PUBLISHED FOR                     Brentwood Tennese
LETTS' DIARIES COMPANY, LIMITED,
BY

CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited,
LONDON, NEW YORK, TORONTO & MELBOURNE.
(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)
For Full Description whereby to obtain a Counterpart of this
Diary, see Order Form.
Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., Printers, Lond
 

Calendar events - see original document
 JANUARY, 1915.   FEBRUARY, 1915.

MARCH, 1915.   APRIL, 1915.

Jose wire

MAY, 1915.  JUNE, 1915.

JULY, 1915.   AUGUST, 1915.

Calendar events - see original document
 SEPTEMBER, 1915.   OCTOBER, 1915.

NOVEMBER, 1915.    DECEMBER, 1915.

1915    JANUARY 8
FRIDAY

GHQ

2nd Echelon 39.

[[Bremer?]]
3 p.m. Frid. Call for glasses.
31469.
34619
Dollond Prismatic
Letter for Archie
Donald MacD

! Mrs Plante    2nd

Two pairs break in
Kits: try on boots.
Overcoat. try on. Take back
cap
Ask if ₤350 will be enough.
Write Big notd.
Coles
Painter.
Sen Pearce WeS

Tell Pethebridge abt. going away.
& buy pass

Turn in Exs.
Argus & Herald:
re Electric Tenders.
 

9 JANUARY   1915
SATURDAY
Senator Pearce:
Mention Insce. Will they look✔
after me if wounded
Film Photos of troops going away.
& of ships ✔
(for lectures).
Book - I will write it. Will
they give me the ordinary
terms? It will want
brushing up. I will take
a full note. How abt naval ✔ ✔✘
Return to Australia - I'll

[*Small. [shorthand] ✔

in Aust

& Eng.*]

try & get photos in Eng.
Address for letters & articles.
Will Reid send any other details enc.
mine?
Garland : Wales or Welshman
Coler Books & monty
Atbe Hunt.

1915   JANUARY 10
 Cost of service at a
rough estimate
to £16500 a year w cables, £1200 without.
Exclusive of Telegrams. —

Sunday

1ST AFTER EPIPHANY
If troops in Eng. shd
I be kept there?
Sydney: Insurance
Paton's Photo
Aunt Amy.
Bignold.
Morton abt book for Toy.
Photos for Capt Ritchie etc.
- Marrickville Cottage

Hosp

100wds a wk & only then if Censor lets
good stuff thro?
telegrams
Conley wants them telegrams Delivered.
Country papers will probly copy.
A short wire: they wont stand £10 a day.
Wd they stand 100 wds a week?
@ 1/6 = £7.10
say £400 a year.
Garland as to my name
name being attached

to letters
 

11 JANUARY    1915

Whethero      S6

MONDAY
Mrs Plante
Caulfield train
Armadale   [shorthand]
Down Steps & left

Thro' arcade
Across tram
Up Kooyong Rd
Left hand side 3rd St.

2nd House

7pm Friday — 

Rod Alsop - End of Toorak train

Albany Road. Keep to left.

Torrington Place. 1pm Sat.

1915 15      JANUARY 22
Abram.  FRIDAY
r National [[shorthand]]
[?]. Birbari.
Canal in 4 divisions -

(1) Near Surg. 2 important points
El-Shates   Koubra (where
Caravan route comes in.
We already brought [shorthand]  [shorthand]  [shorthand] with one
2nd brigade in 
(2) Naval - Could do better [shorthand]  [shorthand]  [shorthand]  [shorthand]  [shorthand]
3) Ismailia - reserve 2 brigades
(2) El Kantara reserve 1 brigade
One of Ismailiah brigades is of
Imp Service troops. All camel
[[p?]] & no [shorthand] battalions except 2 coys engineers
& hold [[shorthand] for sallies etc
[shorthand] [[sent?]] engineers will be 
trenches on W after (where