Centenary MILITARY Aviation Submarines
This year marks two significant Australian military centenaries. On 1 March 1914 Bristol Military Biplane CFS-3 took the first military flight, at the Army flying field, Point Cook, Victoria. Australia subsequently became the only British dominion to establish a flying corps, the Australian Flying Corps (AFC), for service during World War I. Australia's first submarines, British-built E-class vessels known as HMAS AE1 and HMAS AE2, commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy in February 1914, arrived in Sydney on 24 May. On 14 September 1914, Submarine AE1 was tragically lost with all crew during the occupation of Rabaul in German New Guinea. Submarine AE2 went on to support British-led operations off the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey and on 25 April 1915 was the first British submarine to penetrate.
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