Two Australian war correspondents, Charles Bean and Keith Murdoch, had an enormous impact on how the story of World War One was told through Australian eyes, Charles Bean became Australia's first official war correspondent and while he landed on Gallipoli a few hours after the dawn attack on April 25, 1915, his reporting was restricted by official censorship. Keith Murdoch, who had narrowly lost out to Bean for the role of official correspondent, later visited Gallipoli with private instructions to report back to his friend, the Australian Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher, on what was really happening in the war zone. With help of Bean and British reporter Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Murdoch learned the true extent of the Gallipoli disaster and despite the intervention of military police determined to stop him, was able to raise the alarm with English and Australian authorities.
The uncensored truth told by the correspondents led directly to the abandonment of Gallipoli campaign.
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Historical Fiction"These heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives.... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore REST IN PEACE... ....You. The mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears.... After having l...
