Elizabeth Brenchley This is Me

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 Web References

1. 1. HarperCollins Publishers Australia | Home

   www.harpercollins.com.au/autho - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/11/2006   Last Visited: 5/11/2006

   Elizabeth Brenchley is a journalist from an academic background, with an honours degree in both archaeology and history.
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   John Brewer is Eli and Edye Broad Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology in Los Angeles.

2. 2. Lt Cdr Henry Stoker -- an Historic Journey

   anzacday.org.au/history/ww1/an - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/18/2003   Last Visited: 7/13/2004

   Photo courtesy Fred and Elizabeth Brenchley.
   
   Henry Hugh Gordon Dacre Stoker, the second son of a physician, was born in Dublin on 2 February 1885. At the age of 12 he went to England to enter a school which specialised in training boys to pass the entrance examination for the Royal Navy, which he eventually joined at 15. After three years service aboard HMS Implacable, he applied to join the fledgling submarine service. Within two years he was promoted to lieutenant and obtained his first command -- HM Submarine A10.
   
   By 1914 he was an experienced submariner and was chosen to command AE2, one of the two new submarines built at Barrow-in-Furness for the Australian Navy. Despite the fact that the rudimentary submarines of that era had never managed to sail more than 200 miles without breaking down, the intrepid Stoker and his mixed crew of Australian and English ratings -- in company with the other Australian submarine AE1 -- set sail for Australia on 2 March 1914.
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   Photo courtesy Fred and Elizabeth Brenchley.
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   Fred and Elizabeth Brenchley, Stoker's Submarine, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2001.