2025 Bean Prize Competition Winners Announcement

The winning theses for the 2025 CEW Bean Prize for Military History have been selected. This year’s submissions showcased outstanding academic research range of quality applications. After careful review, two high quality entries have been selected for recognition.

Alessandro Barilaro (Honours Division)

The Esteemed of the Western Front – The Making of the Story of the Australians in 1918

Honours Thesis – Deakin University

Robert Wyse (PhD Division)

Suspicious Minds: Australian Korean War POWs, Commonwealth Intelligence Services and the Cold War

PhD Thesis - University of Newcastle

We congratulate both winners on their achievements and thank all the participants for their contributions. These works reflect the high quality research on military history and commitment to advancing knowledge on the history of Army.

CEW Bean prize recipients

• 2023 – Nick Anderson (Postgraduate Division): ‘Getting the House in Order: Tactical Intelligence in the South-West Pacific Area’
• 2022 – Prize not awarded
• 2021 – Prize not awarded