Phillip F. E. (Frederick Edward) Schuler

Born in 1889 in Melbourne, Phillip Frederick Edward Schuler worked as a journalist for The Age and became known as a war correspondent during the First World War. He reported from Gallipoli, where his writing stood out for its clear, immediate picture of the campaign and the people caught up in it.

After his time as a correspondent, he enlisted for active service and was commissioned as a lieutenant. He was wounded during the Battle of Messines and died of those wounds on 23 June 1917, still only in his twenties.

Schuler's reputation rests on the rare combination of close observation and personal experience in wartime. For readers today, his work offers not just military history, but a direct and deeply human account of a world at war.