Group portrait of the Bazley family and close friends, taken the day of 69 Staff Sergeant Arthur ...

Group portrait of the Bazley family and close friends, taken the day of 69 Staff Sergeant Arthur William Bazley's wedding to Annie Celia Chalk (d.1941). Identified in the back row are: third from left is Arthur's mother, Mrs Georgina Victoria Bazley (nee Gibson): third from right, his friend and colleague John Balfour, and far right his father Arthur Edwin Bazley. Front row, from left to right: Australia's official war correspondent and author of the Official History of Australia in the First World War, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W) Bean; Annie Bazley and Arthur William Bazley wearing his army uniform. The remaining people are unidentified. Bazley, a clerk of Melbourne, Vic, enlisted on 5 October 1914 and served as batman and unofficial clerk for Captain Charles Edward Woodrow Bean during the First World War. He was to accompany Bean in 1919 on the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli but had to withdraw due to illness. He assisted Bean from 1919 to 1942 with the compilation of the Official History of Australia in the War and was later acting director of the Australian War Memorial during WW2.