Describe the Origins of the War Memorial

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Describe the Origins of the War Memorial

The Australian War Memorial in Canberra is dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of Australians soldiers that fought and died serving their country. The driving force behind the creation of this monument was Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean. The Memorial has change locations since its creation in 1923. It aims to inform Australians and visitors of the joint and different experiences of our troops and their enemy in different facets of war.

CEW Bean played a significant role in the conception of the War Memorial. In the September of 1914 he was chosen to be the official war correspondent of Australia. Charles Bean stated that:

'Many a man lying out there at Pozières or in the low scrub at Gallipoli, with his poor tired senses barely working through the fever of his brain, has thought in his last moments: 'Well - well - it's over; but in Australia they will be proud of this.'

With the experience of this anguish while reporting on the front line, Charles wanted to show these Australians why they should be proud. In Gallipoli he also noticed that Australian soldiers were avid gatherers of