While the Sydney has been the main target of interest, to use a perhaps unfortunate phrase, among Australian naval historians there have been two others involving Australia's first two submarines. The AE2 was famous in the Dardanelles campaign of WWI for having penetrated the Turkish defences into the Sea of Marmara and did some damage before it was sunk; it has recently been located.

And Oz ABC tv will be broadcasting a story on the AE2 this week.

There's a lot of material on the airwaves this week, in the leadup to Anzac Day (25 April, commemorating the landing at Gallipoli), which has a much bigger profile in Oz than 11 November, known here as Armistice Day. There'll even be a Dawn Service for the first time at Villers-Bretonneux. Last night there was a sequence on an entire Salvation Army band (from Brunswick, just a few metres from where I taught but knew nothing of their history) that enlisted in the 2/22 Btn and were taken as POWs in Rabaul. They were part of the 1000 POWs lost when the Montevideo Maru was torpedoed by a US submarine, an event regarded as Australia's largest maritime loss.

CHeers, Rowan