Lieutenant Henry Stoker, captain of the Royal Australian Navy submarine AE2, taking a bath at sea during the warship’s voyage between England and Australia in 1914. The voyage from Portsmouth, England, to Sydney, New South Wales, took from 2 March to 24 May 1914. Another submarine captain wrote of Stoker at the time:
Stoker was the best of all companions, with an eye like hawk for a ball or at a periscope, he would have been the choice of any board of generals, historians or novelists for a dashing enterprise. More important, he would have been the choice of all his own crew, and many of his old messmates.
[Quoted in T R Frame and G J Swinden, First In, Last Out: The Navy at Gallipoli, Kenthurst, 1990, p.34]