Past Programs
World War 1 - 2008
World War One correspondents
25/09/2008
There were a number of Australian journalists who provided eye-witness accounts from the battlefields of the Great War, between 1914 and 1918. Among them was the writer Katherine Susannah Prichard who, while working as a journalist in Britain, was sent to France to report on the Australian hospitals set up to help the wounded on the Western Front.
Perhaps the best known Australian journalist in the Great War was Charles Edwin Woodrow (CEW) Bean. Appointed the offical correspondant to the AIF, Bean accompanied the troops at the landing at Gallipoli, and sent despatches back to the Australian press. He also reported and recorded accounts from the Western Front. Bean wrote the six-volume official history of the Australian involvement in the First World War.
