The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two staff members outside the Australian War Memorial, Clement Francis (Clem) Coady, (left) and Arthur William Bazley, (right). Clem Coady had served with the RAAF as 27123 a wireless operator during the Second World War. He enlisted on 18 July 1940 and was discharged as a sergeant with the 200 Flight on 26 July 1945. He joined the Memorial in 1952 and was by 1957 Keeper of the Written Records, a position he held into the 1960s. Coady wrote military history articles for the magazine 'Reveille' following in the traditions of Arthur Bazley. Arthur Bazley had enlisted on 5 October 1914 with headquarters staff of 1st Australian Division, AIF and embarked from Melbourne, aboard HMAT Orvieto on 22 October 1914. He became an orderly to the official war correspondent, C E W Bean. Bazley was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal on 25 March 1920 for his outstanding service. He returned to Australia and was demobilised on 11 June 1919 with the rank of staff sergeant of the historical staff under Bean. On 12 September 1919 he was employed in a civilian capacity with the Department of Defence assisting Bean. On 21 November 1939, Bazley was promoted to chief clerk and librarian of the Memorial and was acting director from 1942 to 1946. On 30 August 1946, after 29 years service, Bazley left the Memorial for the Department of Immigration, where he remained until he retired in 1961. He died in Canberra on 31 July 1972.
Family portrait of the Bazley family. Identified from left to right, back row: Arthur William Bazley (left) and his father Arthur Edwin Bazley. Front row, seated: Mrs Georgina Victoria Bazley (nee Gib
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 a
Informal portrait of Arthur William Bazley standing behind his desk at Tuggranong (Tuggeranong) Homestead, where he worked as a clerk for Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean. Bazley, a clerk of Melbourne, Vic,
Group portrait of the Bazley family and close friends, taken the day of 69 Staff Sergeant Arthur William Bazley's wedding to Annie Celia Chalk (d.1941). Identified in the back row are: third from lef
Informal portrait of Arthur William Bazley, at Tuggranong (Tuggeranong) Homestead recovering from an accident where he received severe burns to his face and hands. He had entered the homestead's works
17 Boxes of papers relating to Bazley's work as assistant to CEW Bean, as a member of the official history team, his public service career at the Australian War Memorial (acting Director, Librarian an