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Dardanelles

Occasional Paper 118: In his own words: AE2’s skipper, H.G. Stoker

A.N. Other · Aug 3, 2021 ·

By Bob Hetherington Originally Published in the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) Volunteers’ Quarterly newsletter ‘All Hands’, Issue 114 in March 2021. Many readers will know something of the AE2 ...

Occasional Paper 55: Reuben Mitchell DSM, RAN – Survivor of HMS E14

Editorial Staff · Jun 17, 2019 ·

June 2019 The following story is of an Australian Able Seaman whom some military historians believe should have been awarded the Victoria Cross for his courage and compassion while under ...

The Awkward Art of Getting Ashore and Off Again

A.N. Other · Dec 21, 2015 ·

By Geoff Barnes The author, a keen amateur historian and model maker, gathered most of the information used in this article from research undertaken in building a diorama of the ...

Sweeping the Dardanelles – Naval actions prior to the Anzac landing at Gallipoli

Turner, Mike · Mar 23, 2015 ·

By Mike Turner  On 18 March 1915 three Allied battleships were sunk by a line of 20 Turkish mines laid by the small Turkish minelayer Nusret in the Dardanelle Straits. ...

Gallipoli and Other Stories, by Uncle Bill

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 2013 ·

  William Kinnersley was born in Wales on 20 September 1896 and died aged 95 on 17 May 1992 at Collaroy, NSW. After Royal Naval service during the First World ...

The RAN Contribution to the ‘Spirit of Anzac’

Watters, Andrew, Chaplain, RANR · Mar 10, 2011 ·

Anzac Day was a solemn occasion – that is how I remember it from my childhood. As a child of the 1960s, this day was marked by the annual pilgrimage ...

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Book Review: Beneath the Dardanelles

Book reviewer · Dec 5, 2008 ·

Beneath the Dardanelles By Vehici and Hatice Basarin Published by Allen and Unwin in paperback, rrp $24.95. Reviewed by Barry Nobes This unusual book purports to present the sinking of ...

AE2 – Unsung Hero of Gallipoli

Spencer, Mark · Dec 5, 2008 ·

On May 24, 1914, Australia acquired its first submarines from England as part of a new post‑federation initiative to achieve more autonomy in the protection of our shores. These were ...

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Reuben Mitchell DSM, RAN – Survivor of HMS E14

Smith, Peter · Jun 3, 2006 ·

The following story is of an Australian Able Seaman whom some military historians believe should have been awarded the Victoria Cross for his courage and compassion while under enemy fire ...

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Book Review: Stoker’s Submarine

Swinden, Greg · Sep 30, 2001 ·

Title: Stoker’s Submarine Authors: Fred & Elizabeth Brenchley Publisher: Harper Collins Nearly every Australian could tell you the history of the landing at Anzac Cove, on 25 April 1915, of ...

Letter – The discovery of AE2

Jarrett, Hugh · Mar 19, 2000 ·

Dear Sirs, I read Mark Spencer’s article… “The Discovery of the AE2 – a WW1 Submarine” with great interest and agree that it is a story largely unknown in this ...

The Dardanelles Campaign

Jeffrey, Vic · Mar 1, 2000 ·

The Dardanelles campaign could be described as one of the most famous campaigns of the First World War and has ever since been the subject of much discussion and controversy. ...

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Sailor’s Escape from AE2

Spencer, Mark · Sep 1, 1999 ·

The diary of a Woy Woy man has become a vital piece of the puzzle for historians putting together the history of the Australian submarine AE2, which sank near Gallipoli ...

The AE2 Graves

Swinden, Greg · Dec 7, 1998 ·

In the Baghdad North Gate Cemetery (Iraq) are the graves or memorials of four RAN sailors who died during World War I. Who were these men? How did they come ...

Submarine Sinks Battleship – Holbrook VC

Weston, Bert E. · Mar 2, 1996 ·

Commander Norman Douglas Holbrook VC, who won the first Victoria Cross to be gazetted in the Royal Navy in WWI, for his exploit in sinking the Turkish battleship MESSOUDIEH, inside the Sea ...

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Navy Blue Anzacs – The RAN in the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign

Swinden, Greg · Mar 2, 1996 ·

Mention Gallipoli to any Australian and they will immediately think of bronzed ANZACs storming ashore at ANZAC Cove on 25th April 1915, Simpson and his donkey evacuating wounded, or the ...

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Naval Operations against Turkey leading to ANZAC

Smythe, D.H.D., AO, Commodore, RAN · Jun 11, 1991 ·

Originally, the Gallipoli campaign was planned to be a purely naval show. But let me go back in history a little further even than that. The Gallipoli campaign was caused, ...

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Turkish Treatment of British Naval Prisoners

Trimmer, L.S. Henry · Dec 9, 1984 ·

Little has been written on the treatment of naval prisoners in Turkish prisoner of war camps in World War I. Although this report was written by a Royal Navy sailor ...

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