Informal portrait of 69 Staff Sergeant Arthur William Bazley, in the grounds of Tuggranong ...

Accession Number P03743.011
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Place made Australia: Australian Capital Territory, Tuggeranong
Date made c 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
Period 1920-1929
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of 69 Staff Sergeant Arthur William Bazley, in the grounds of Tuggranong (Tuggeranong) Homestead. 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.

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