Gallipoli Correspondent - The Frontline Diary of C.E.W. Bean

George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1983 edition
C.E.W. Bean sailed with the first convoy in October 1914 and landed with the ANZACs on that fateful first morning of 25 April remaining on Gallipoli until the evacuation. Probably no person saw more of the ANZACs in battle on Gallipoli than did Bean. He was unique among the war correspondents of his day - no place in the line was too dangerous for him. No other pressman dared to go ashore at the first landings. Throughout the fiercest battles, he would sit in the dust or mud of the frontline trench taking notes or making sketches. On occasions he dragged wounded soldiers to safety from no-man's land. When his luck eventually ran out and he was wounded, he refused to be evacuated. Bean was the only correspondent to witness the entire campaign...