Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/69/1 - January 1917 - Part 1

AWM38
Official History,
1914-18 War: Records of C E W Bean,
Official Historian.
Diaries and Notebooks
Item number: 3DRL606/69/1
Title: Diary, January 1917
Refers to Bean's visit to London, Australian cine
films, the 12th Battalion during the fighting of
July 1916, Photographs and Gallipoli.

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AWM38-3DRL606/69/1
AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL       RCDIG1066834

s  Grassick Jan - Feby
os London 1917
Jan 16 - 29
tos     2

Original      DIARY No. 69

AWM38  3 DRL 606 ITEM 69 [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

(buy) & return
Clingworth. get Hellen

photos copied.

1 xx Griffiths

Hogben. Thurs or Frid.
get from Smart
Pozieres [[trench?]]
& school.

[*60/0*]
[*OR*]

[*Bloens*]
N.S.W. A. Genl
Does he want Souvenirs
if not; send 'em to
Australia.
Take souveniers
to NSW. A.G.
→ J. (Ceylon Planter)'s Watch
Jack's Book to

See abt J's Book at

Kingsway House
Bank H.
Ott & May 
SPVD
Wed Bazleys telegram
Brentwood
[Hand drawn diagrams on left margin - see original document]
 

Grassick Jan  Feby 1917
London  1917
Jan 16-29; 
Return clothes to                          

Joan's W. present.

→ Griffiths re Air photos.              

                                                             
→ Illingworth - Air Photos                                        2
wh M' Cay.    ——-                                  

M' Cs address  (A I F. HQ)    (69)

→ My records - Air photos
→ My records Enlargements by Illingw.

→ Ask Illing. if my ^ old Brooks prints can be made there
re. Photos taken by Brookes for me
See Aitken
Get list of photos taken for 

me besides those above [[ shorthand]]

Ask Aitk. how I can get negatives 

from printers holders.

Get my prints made permanent by I.
→ Book. See Young & Flower.
Shall I get photos.
2nd Book. Arrange about
getting Chapters- (earlier articles)
typed. ——
Agreement.
Ask C. Brown if he will forego
his percentage on books on Gallip &W.Div.

3

xxx Clothings - to Cl..&  Mortley
Wanddon Hotel take trousers & coat.
Euston Stn. (ticket,  sleeper cost of)
Joans w. present
Graves Registrn (War Office)
Miss Herbertson. Take notification
→ Smart. Photo Exhibn.
Take letter.
Get Photos for Book
→ Jack: Visit Trewby ^ 4 Duchess St Portld  abt Tyke.
Cystopurin (Wielfgan?) can anything be done
abt. his teeth?
Mothers eyes: see the best specialist.
Mrs Burne Wilmington - Crystal 
Palace Rd.(? Sat [shorthand]
Joan Harvey - Give her J's [shorthand]
Mag.  [shorthand] - LETTERS
Cockell
? Excelsior Printers Supply Co Ltd.
41 Farringdon St. London EC.
Typeset (small process block)
→Deed box
Bertie
Give records back to C. Bank.
Collins - address of Welsh Edr.
→Cth Bank for records.
Gibbs - ? Mrs. Dyson.
Mrs. Butler w Smart. 33 Collingham Pl.
 

4
Programme in London.

Writing: Maj G.J. Hogben
Auditor
AIF
make out Exs.
Visit Exxx
Raymond Beach Price
US Rubber Co.
1790 Broadway NY
Higgs & miss Garrett
Mrs Selwyn.
Connie Bean,
Bolton Farm,
Offenham,

Bank   Evesham
Kingsway House by Appt.
Pater £70 
Hough
Herbertson's MSS (if time)

My diary (if time)
La Baronne de La Grange

Chateau La Motte.
Exs, 68/-  15/-  15/-
Write Aunt K & Joan
Zimius fr. Earls

5
Howse Lunch Thurs.
5 to 1 at Horsef.
1 - 10 at St. James Sq.
British Empire Club

Mr. Young. Monday.
{5 pm. at Cassells.
{to
{10 am. Tuesd.

Holmes Spicer
5 Manchester Sq.
Padgton 3219

Rose 33 Weymouth St.
2371, 1858 Mayfair

 

6
Programme in London

1. Windsor
2. A.I.F.H.Qrs. (to leave papers only)
3. N.S.W. A.G

4. Smart. To leave papers - only

   ( leave boxes there.

5. Bazleys telegram.

   Cey. planters’ Watch

   Tin Box
   7. Cassells.

6. J's. Book to Kingsway.
   Get deed box from Cth Bk.
    Excelsior Printers L’don St.
   4.30 pm. Mr Fisher.

prxx

Friday 1 pm. (?)
Mr. Fisher ?

 

Programme in London
Monday. Part 3 
"Great War"

Mr. Young. 5pm.
Watch
Clare & Mortley
2 p.m.  Messrs Illingworth.

Take out clothes, my set of Photos, Helen's photos
See Griffiths abt. air photos,
arrange to get them at 12.58 pm.
Has White answered the telegs.
Ask G. if he knows where M'.C. is
Readdress  Enter this on appt. list.
Letters  Hand in Anz Book Acq. Roll. (in this diary)
N.S.W. A.G.
Arrange abt. sending away 
souvenirs when finished 
 ^ with.
? Ring up Trewby.
Get Deed Box. (Later)
Clare & Mortley
B's Telegram
C.Ps Watch.
(Christine Miller
M'Cay's address
30 Bruton St.
Mayfair
Tel. Mayfair 7186)
Arrange photos for Illingworth.
12.50 AIF HQrs. Whites tele. Photos
Lunch with Howse [[?]] B.E. Club
& 
Trewby  4 Duchess St. Portland
Tykes Teeth [shorthand]
 ? [shorthand] at Br. Brent Hosp.
Mother Best Eye Spec.
Cystopurin
58/- Euston inquire abt. my ticket
15/- Illingworth // Compile 3 circulars.
? Euston (ticket) Post Js' book Get ink filler
Deed Box. / post F&Ms papers Get list of photos
(No2^.) from Smart & compare.
Aunt Katie
 

Clothes cl.& pt. Programme in Lond.
watch Thurs
Thurs.  telegram 
AG pictures Griffiths
N.O. Pictures & Whites telegram? & Censor
Lunch House 12.30
New Deed Box.
Enq. at Euston abt ticket
Illingworth. re photos.

NSW A.G. Arrange abt
sending away of souvenirs
when finished with.
Ask Griff. abt M' Cay.
Deed box
[*No. 2 Reply form.*]
[*No.3. Circ covering Acq. Roll.*]
[*No. 4. Acknowledged post & sent to Coss.*]
[*No. 5. Letter to Cassells.*]
Illingworth: Photos of Helles.
Enlargements
My air photos.
Can my prints be 
made [shorthand]
Bag  Arrange abt
later photos [shorthand].
classify & mark photos in packets
White's
Visit Trewby abt Tyke.
Ask him abt Eye sp. for mother
& cystopurin.

 11.16  Philpole
Wilcocks Room 5

Ring Selley 
WO
Aitken
Ross for 862 Western.
Pack clothes. Montie’s Cable. Hogben Mayfair 7186
Bruton St. 

(Christie
Miller)
Call for letters. Ask abt White. Get car to M'Cay.
Mayfair
7186
30 Bruton St.
(Christie Miller)
Leave message for Gelly tt I may ring him up.
Has White written?
Question of sketches
{War Officer. Knox Niven. List of pictures (can I get one ^list
from Smart?) & lot of photos.
Graves Registrn (take papers) 
See McCay. (ask for photo & for Cass’s address)
See Trewby, if Possible. (see last page)
N.S.W. A.G. or Capt Collins
Ham. Nat^l. Council V.D.

Get list of pictures & photos from Smart
- my photos. .           Ask about Aitken
War Office.
1pm. Fisher (what is being done w / blind?)
3p.m. Jury.     { Vic: 8860.}
Come back to H. Commns. 

C.Ps watch Dents, Cockspur St.
{Get Cassells contract.
& address Auditor A.I.F.
Invoices supporting their  [shorthand]
March July.}

Progs. in London  Pack clothes
Frid. call for letters  Gelly -White ?
Take graves registrn papers.
W.O. sketches & Censor.
Watch.
Graves Registrn.
W.O. Knox Niven - list of pictures
11am Nat Council  VD
Bank Bldgs
Kingsway.
{Trewby } Ring up. Can I get car?
{M'Cay} 

{Cass where is he?
3p.m. Jury (?) Ring up Griffiths
?Aitken.
Post Js Book. F & Ms Paper.

Capt. Collins.

Night things for Smart

? Look up Gallipoli letters.

Vest. Paul’s. Gloves.
Write Joan.
Arrange w Gellibrand &
see Pozieres films.
Lunch Fisher. Ask w what
is being done for blind.
CPs watch

Programme in London

Sat
Gellibrand for  [[ shorthand]]
Shopping. New Soapbox.
Stockings
shirt & collars
Ink filler
Corona.

Illingworth's films.
See White abt (1) "Rising Sun"
                            (2) Aust. & the Gt war.

Papers for [[shorthand]]
Janet Burns.

 

Brentwood.

P

Sun.
Brentwood.
Katie.