author
Phillip F. E. (Frederick Edward) Schuler
1879–1917
Best known as a fearless Australian war correspondent, he reported from Gallipoli with unusual immediacy before later serving himself on the Western Front. His writing carries the urgency of someone who saw war up close and paid for it with his life.
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Australia in Arms A Narrative of the Australasian Imperial Force and Their Achievement at Anzac
by Phillip F. E. (Frederick Edward) Schuler
About the author
Born in Melbourne in 1889, Phillip Frederick Edward Schuler was the son of The Age editor Frederick Schuler. He worked as a journalist and became widely known for his reporting during the Gallipoli campaign in the First World War, where his dispatches gave readers in Australia a vivid sense of the fighting and the people involved.
After covering the war as a correspondent, he went on to enlist for active service himself. He served with the Australian Imperial Force in Europe, was wounded, and died in France on June 23, 1917, while still in his twenties.
Schuler is remembered both as a reporter and as a soldier. His best-known book, Australia in Arms, grew out of his wartime experience and remains part of the record of how Australians understood the war as it was happening.