Description
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, enlisted on 5 October 1914 and served as batman and unofficial clerk for Captain Bean during the First World War. He was to accompany Bean in 1919 on the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli but had to withdraw due to illness. He assisted Bean from 1919 to 1942 with the compilation of the Official History of Australia in the War and was later acting director of the Australian War Memorial during WW2.
Details
Accession Number
P03743.010
Classification
Photograph
Physical Description
Support: Nitrate
Credit Line
Donor P Bazley
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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