Group portrait of, from left to right: The Reverend Edwin Bean; Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean; ...

Group portrait of, from left to right: The Reverend Edwin Bean; Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean; Archibald Stirling (Archie) Whyte, political correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and Phillip Frederick Edward (Peter) Schuler, Correspondent for The Age. C E W Bean was Australia's official war correspondent and author of the Australian official history of the First World War. He was the founder of the Australian War Memorial. In October 1914, Schuler left to accompany the troops to Egypt where he spent most of the Gallipoli campaign, apart from mid July to mid August 1915 where he and Charles Patrick Smith, a correspondent with The Argus, received permission to go to the Gallipoli peninsula. In 1916 Schuler wrote the book Australia in Arms, about the Gallipoli campaign. The next year, Schuler joined the army. He enlisted and was given the rank of Lance Corporal Driver and the service number 10926, embarking with the 3rd Divisional Train, AASC. In 1917 he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. On 23 June 1917, he died in Belgium of wounds.