HMAT A28 Miltiades

HMAT A28 Miltiades
History
Name	HMAT A28 Miltiades
Builder/Built	1903 Alex Stephen & Sons, Glasgow.
Type	SS Troopship
Displacement	7,814 tons
Speed	13 knots

Remarks

Requisitioned as a troopship in 1915. On 1 Nov 1914 arrived in Albany to become one of the ships in the 1st Convoy. 7 Feb 1916 carried Medical Officers fro Adelaide, and on 1 Aug 1916, Medical Officers from Melbourne, stopping in Fremantle for more of the same on 9 Aug 1916. On 24 Jan 1917 Medical Officers from Adelaide, and on 2 Aug 1917 more of the same from Sydney.

Commonwealth control ended 15 Sep 1917. Resumed commercial service in June 1920. Purchased by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and renamed ORCANA. She later served with the Pacific Steam Navigation Company for their South American service. She was laid up from 1923 to 1924. Scrapped in Holland

Fremantle to Port Suez 12 February - 11 March 1916

• Clyde Bird
• Thomas Bird
• Victor Leo Gordon Boyle
• William Carroll
• Herbert (Bert) Cumming
• Albert Edward Coates Delamotte Post WW1 men
• Frederick Sidney Gladstone
• Henry McCavana
• John Donaldson Patterson
• William Plant
• John Whittaker

Fremantle to Plymouth 7 August - 25 September 1916

• Rueben Arnold
• Edward Bailey
• Richard Beattie
• Albert Victor Berry
• Macalister Adair Blain
• Sidney Herrick Carter
• William Francis Cohn
• Ernest John Coles
• William Edwin Cousens MM
• John Goffin
• Thomas Hesketh
• Donald Gordon Melville Huggins
• Gordon Weston Johanson
• Thomas William Moore
• Joseph David O'Brien
• Egbert Robert Trethowan Reeves
• James Strachan
• William Lamplough Ullyott

Fremantle to Devonport 29 January - 27 March 1917

• Henry Ogilvie Allom (Jnr)
• George Alexander Armstrong
• Frederick John Chester
• Stephen Gittins
• Frederick George Golding
• James Peter Henderson MM & Bar
• Stanley Thomas Marsh
• Samuel Mellington Moore
• Thomas Alfred Osborne
• Robert Melville Salter
• Leonard Alfred Sawtell
• Clarence Otto Sladden
• Harold Hopgood Surman
• Frederick White