Documents relating to the AE2
The original documents in this gallery are from two files in the Australian War Memorial dealing with the AE2:
- Submarine AE2: Loss of (September) – 18/3 AWM 50;
- [HMA Submarine AE2 Lieut Comd Stoker] – Bundle 49 AWM 36
1-5, AWM 50
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These four documents concern the official reporting and acceptance of the loss of the AE2. The first is a request from the Navy Office in Australia to the British Admiralty Office in London asking for confirmation of a press report of the sinking and the next two documents are from the Admiralty. The fourth document was sent to the Navy Office from the Australian High Commission in London after the situation of the AE2’s last voyage had become a bit clearer. The last document in this series, which praises the commander of the AE2 and its crew, was written in 1916 well after the end of the Gallipoli campaign by Admiral John de Roebeck who had been the commander of British naval forces at the Dardanelles.
6, AWM 36
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Report from Lieutenant Commander Henry Stoker written in 1919 concerning his alleged ill-treatment, while a prisoner of war between 1915 and 1918 in Turkey, at the hands of a particular Turkish officer named Djavad Bey.
7, AWM 36
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Lieutenant Commander Henry Stoker’s original report of the AE2’s passage of the Dardanelles on 25 April 1915. It was written on 9 January 1919 well after Stoker’s release from prison camp in Turkey.
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