Charles Bean’s war

By April the Anzacs had moved to Lemnos for training and, on April the 25th, they landed at Gallipoli. One of your peers on the peninsula was the celebrated English reporter Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett and he's here tonight. Ellis, what was your great scoop at Gallipoli relating to Australia’s entry into the war?, How would you describe the nature of your column?

Elis Ashmead-Bartlett was an experienced war correspondent whose writing style was quite different to that of Charles Bean. His access to eyewitness reporting on the first day the Gallipoli Campaign (.docx 528kB) was also different to Bean’s.