SS Dongola
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Owned by Peninsular & Orient Steam Navigation Company. During the war she was a British Hospital ship, staffed by nurses including some Australian and New Zealand nurses. Dongola served in the Dardanelles campaign and visited Anzac, Suvla and Cape Helles in 1915, taking patients to Alexandria in Egypt and to Malta.
Used later as a Troopship as per the photo, returning troops from the Middle East to Australia.
Soldiers carried
Off Gallipoli acting as a Hospital Ship
- William Hart post WW1 man 4 - 19 May 1915