... possible reasons for this image. Bean was born in 1879 in Bathurst, New South Wales and grew up in a strongly imperial environment.1 His home life and education reflected the 'values of service honour, patriotism and valour'2 that were ethnic of imperial England. Bean worked in law in both England and Australia and then took up Journalism and during this time he explored and wrote about outback Australia. When he went ashore at Gallipoli he began to identify the characteristics of the soldier with the men he had come to know whilst travelling in the outback. Bean thought that this outback life of Australian men made them great soldiers. Amongst these characteristics was the extremely powerful "mateship"3 among the soldiers and the creation of the term the "Australian digger". Alistair Thompson4 says the term digger' was a culture that conjured up images of behaviour and language common to the Australian ...

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