Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/38C/1 - Notebook - Part 4










41
Bundles of
Clothing.
Bands
Tools, axe handles,
Engn Artill. officer comes in for tools
Eng. happens to be there
[* Old race course *]
Dial sight lost. (importance of
officers & N.C.Os)
150 waterproof sheets
Have to give them & investigate
afterwards
Cant put gun out of action.
£10,000,000
Everyone thinks ought to be gunners
in his case
[* War started
mobilisatn*]
British back down
Lost
Altd them in war?
Waggons resting on one wheel
Hand drawn diagram - see original document
[*in camp.
& a bit
spital
me on from L.H.
Dreadful
at, "Wd
l? "
an issue
y. The
horseman
out &
d him &*]
[*Ord. Off.
Remounts
L. of C.
A.S.C. officer
Signaller
General Staff
Censor
Parsons
Military
Rules
Ind.Soldier
Strategy.
Navy
Aviators
Cavalry
Convoy
aviators
[[shorthand] officer]*]
41
Nucleus 5. & a few storemen taken on in camp.
Chap who Reg. work outside regt. & a bit
interesting. Gen coming out of hospital.
Sergt. hears of them. So & so wants to come on from L.H.
So & so turns up. Looks at iron horseshoes. 'Dreadful
bad iron, Sir:" Turns out he ws a chemist. "Wd
you like me to analyse the castor oil?"
X taken on (L.H.) from stat. hospital made an issue
to hospital of a lot of rope got for artillery. The
hosp. gave a receipt. When D.A.D.O.S found
it he knew insisted Hosp. ought never to have been
supplied - its a Base depot unit - Light horseman
seeing he had made a mistake cleared out &
didnt come back. However they found him &
he has turned out an excellent man.
And the Hospital gave the rope back!
Ord. off
[*Remounts
L. of C.
A.S.C. officer
Signaller
General Staff
Censor
Parsons
Military
Rules
Ind. Soldier
Strategy
Navy
Aviators
Cavalry
Convoyaviators
[[shorthand]] officer*]
45
Scraggy lot of horses. Could be half of them were rejects from last lot.
In Napoleons stables 180 ft. x 40 ft. very lofty. room 20 ft at end.
Divl remount officer goes round & picks eyes out, swearing all time.
A.D. of Remounts gets deadly sick at seeing eyes picked out.
Huge draught horses. They'll h. to do for A.S.C.
Nice looking lot are either private officers names or ticket
or Veterinary mobile section. Three spheres
Collecting. Mobile. Base.
Arabs. O son of a misbegotten etc etc.
Pickets too loose. Horse wandering round with ^end of rope throws
second horse down. Finally half a doz. [[shorthand]]
Remount
Smiths dog etc)
filling up w Arab
[[shorthand]] Mortality
[[shorthand]]
[*Remounts
L. of C.
A.S.C. officer
Signaller
General Staff
Censor
Parsons
Military
Rules
Ind. officer
Strategy
Navy
Aviators
Cavalry
Convoyaviators
[[shorthand]] officer*]
49
A.S.C.officer
[*Signaller
General Staff
Censor
Parsons
Military
Rules
Ind. Soldier
Strategy
Navy
Aviators
Cavalry
Convoyaviators
[[shorthand]] officer*]
53
see. order After DO32. (300)
Coy signallers etc. nco & 2 men w Coy comm : 1 man w each platoon Commr.
have to note positns of neighbouring units
2 yrs ago when a C.O. was going out for the day
he cd ask for 2 signallers - & they'd go.
One wd lead his horse & the other wd
carry his lunch.
Signallers
[*General Staff
Censor
Parsons
Military
Rules
Ind. Soldier
Strategy
Navy
Aviators
Cavalry
Convoy
aviators
[[shorthand]] officer*]
57
General Staff
[*Censor
Parsons
Military
Rules
Ind. Soldier
Strategy
Navy
Aviators
Cavalry
Convoy
aviators
[[shorthand]] officer*]
61
Jan 12.1915
Birdwds order[shorthand] which warned that in sending letters they must avoid
giving any information which might be [[shorthand]] to the name as expected [shorthand]
Press Cutting Albums Newspaper Files Search
a Specialty
Phone us for Duplicate Papers, &c.
From BULLETIN
Address 28 JAN SYDNEY,
Date SOUTH WALES
"E.D.": Bean's work is being availed of
by newspapers far less than was expected
by the Government when he was appointed.
The chief reason is that parsons, whom the
Government is already paying up to £960
per annum for accompanying the expeditionary
force, have entered into competition
with the official war correspondent. The
cleric, who has rushed off on a colonel's
salary, is able to supply regular copy at a
cheaper rate than that at which a paper can
get Bean's stuff, and at a tenth the cost of
sending a man of its own. The sky-pilot's
copy may be amateurish, but the journal
publishing it can claim exclusiveness for the
drivel, and may head it "From our own war
correspondent." The writer knows at least
one metropolitan daily now doing this, in a
State where Bean's matter is not seeing
print. Meanwhile old hands at the journalistic
game have been pushed out of their jobs
by the war, and the A.J.A. has had to
collect a benevolent fund to help them over
stormy times.
Censor
[*Parsons
Military
Rules
Ind. Soldier
Strategy
Navy
Aviators
Cavalry
Convoyaviators
[[shorthand]] officer*]
65
Parsons
[*Military
Rules
Ind. Soldier
Strategy
Navy
Aviators
Cavalry
Convoyaviators
[[shorthand]] officer*]
69
Take a simple rule - marching in step.
E.g. marching in step - so that they know exactly
how far the column can go will stretch & what pace it
can go.
Another: Every order must go through the proper
superior. If it doesnt, you may get cross
orders i.e. Pte A may have one order from
Sergt. X another from Lieut. Y & another
from Gen. Z. He may obey the superior's order -
but then the Sergt. & the Lieut. are probably away
trusting that the Sergt A is doing the job they
gave him
Riding Baggage Waggon Horses: At N.Z. parade when
in order to hasten the [[shorthand]] train was ordered to trot, Australians
(ridden team) broke into orderly trot. N.Z (driven) were all over
place - one team nearly bolted etc. Horses plunging.
Military Rules
[*Ind. Soldier
Strategy
Navy
Aviators
Cavalry
Convoy
aviators
[[shorthand]] officer*]
73
Pathan in Chitral campgn who jumped on top of
Sangar & signalled to Brit. Battery shelling it: Miss high
miss left etc till a shell got him in the stomach.
Ind. Soldier
[*Strategy
Navy
Aviators
Cavalry
Convoy
aviators
[[shorthand]] officer*]

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