Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/184/1 - March 1918 - Part 1

AWM38

Official History,

1914-18 War: Records of C E W Bean,

Official Historian.

Diaries and Notebooks

Item number: 3DRL606/184/1

Title: Notebook, March 1918

Includes references to the 47th Battalion,

Dernancourt and Sgt S R McDougall’s VC

AWM38-3DRL606/184/1

 

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Corps School.  {What arrangements as to 

                            {evacuations

Railhead - Where is it, & best method

of reaching it.

47 Bn

Dernancourt. 
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DIARY NO. 184

AWM38
3DRL 606 ITEM 184 [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 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 Gallipoli campaign, notwithstanding that those 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

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SUPREME COURT

Launceston Sittings

The Chief Justice (Sir Herbert

Nicholls) will preside in the Supreme

Court at Launceston this week and next.

The court will sit in its matrimonial 

jurisdiction to-day, when eight undefended

divorce suits are listed for hearing.

Argument will be heard in chambers 

with reference to a matter of procedure 

in regard to a pending case of Mense

V. Mense and Daley (intervener), and

if it is decided to set the case down it

will be heard before a jury to-morrow.

The Court will sit in civil jurisdiction 
to-morrow, when a commencement  
will be made with

the hearing of the following 

cases: Evelyn Sylvia Burgess v. Herbert

Percy Keach, claim for £1,000 damages

for alleged negligence arising out of a

motor collision; C. E. Lohrey and F.

W. Williamson v. Ernest Beck, F. J.

Gunn and H. R. Wing, £353 conversion. 
An application for an order to

review will be heard in the case of

Oakes v. Grubb, and further matters In 

the bankruptcy, lunacy and practice 

court jurisdiction are listed.

Commencing on Thursday week cases

are set down under the local Courts Act

jurisdiction.
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PRESBYTERIAN GIRLS
SUCCESSFUL CONCERT AT
HOBART.

 

European Art

Among returning travellers in the P.

and O. liner Mongolia to-day was Mr

W. B. McInnes the eminent Victorian

portrait painter. McInnes left Melbourne 
seven months ago for England, 

the trip having been partly undertaken

for pleasure and partly to paint a companion 
portrait of the Duke of York, to 

be hung side by side with Mr. James

Quinn’s portrait of the Duchess in the

Castlemaine Gallery. Speaking of the

trend of present-day European art, he

said that either many modern artists 

were not in their right minds or they

painted with their tongues in their

cheeks. In his opinion the trouble was

psychological, and due mainly to the

fact that Europe and her artists had not

recovered from the war. Modern art

was matter of fashion, created largely 

by critics. Painters, critics, and dealers 
were playing a game of bluff in

which even the dealers were in a maze.

He thought, however, that the modern

movement was no more than a passing

phase, which might even do good in the

way of provoking fresh interest in art.

Already promising young men were

emerging from the new generation. Australian 
artists of the calibre of Longstaff,
Max Meldrum, and others, he

found, could hold their own with the
very best of their English brethren of 

the brush.

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Hand drawn diagrams – see original

 

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Hand drawn diagram – see original

 

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Hand drawn diagram – see original

 

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Hand drawn diagram – see original

※ The corner the Hun tried to get

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47^th Bn. Sergt ^S.R. McDougall. I saw today

Sergt McDougall, the Sergt of 47 Bn who has bn

recommended for a V.C. & got from him, by

careful leading o / conversation, / real story

of his fight on March 28 — not the story

put up by his Bn. The boy wdnt talk abt

himself – ws most modest. His action

was a magnificent one, but not the highly

coloured version told by admiring officers

& comrades does not represent it at all.