Charles Bean's Gallipoli by Phillip Bradley

Author:Phillip Bradley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin

The war correspondents’ camp at the edge of a vineyard on Imbros. Bean took the photo when he moved there in July 1915. AWM G01362.

6 July

Went down for a bathe—no shrapnel.

I found the correspondents’ camp under some elm trees with the camp of the officers of a Manchester battalion. Ashmead-Bartlett’s6 tent was there with his kit—but no tent for me. Accordingly I walked over to GHQ and there in the first tent I enquired in—the HQ mess—I found Captain Maxwell.7 He was exceedingly nice and gave me a glass of beer—I don’t often drink beer, but I did enjoy that one—and had a very long yarn. He said he had hardly had to censor my work at all; that it was much the most complete that had been done here. The reason for rounding the rest of us up was in order to round up Ashmead-Bartlett. They weren’t at all satisfied with his proceedings, and wanted to have him thoroughly under control—and so made the rule apply to the lot of us. I must say it’s an infernal waste of time.

7 July

I caught the torpedo boat . . . at 10 a.m.—by the skin of my teeth, getting a warship’s steamboat to take me across.

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