HMAT A68 Anchises

HMAT A68 Anchises
History
Name	HMAT A68 Anchises
Builder/Built	1911 in Belfast
Type	SS Troopship
Displacement	10,046 tons
Speed	10 knots

Remarks

Owned by the Ocean SS Co Ltd, Liverpool (Blue Funnel Line). While managed by the Transport Branch of the Royal Australian Navy she made five journeys from Australia as a troop ship. Commonwealth control ceased on 12 Oct 1917 when her management transferred to the British Admiralty.

Soldiers carried

Fremantle to Port Suez 2 September 1915 - ? September 1915

Sailed 26 August 1915 from Melbourne, Victoria

• † Frederick James Bishop
• Reginald Thomas (Reg) Cockshott
• Victor Thomas Emanuel Compassi
• George Chistopher Dalziell DCM
• Angus Lindt
• † Ernest Edward Lockhart
• † Frederick William Wallace Moore
• Joseph Pulford
• Edward William Tink

Sydney to Liverpool 8 August - 2 October 1917

• Arthur Frederick William Eivers
• John Henry Ward

England to Fremantle 1 November - 25 December 1917

• Patrick Francis Brennan
• William Arthur Shepherd

Devonport to Albany 28 February - 7 April 1919

• Edgar Copley Adams MID
• Percival (Peter) Clement Bassett
• Ronald Adolphous Julian Batt
• Edward Briggs
• Harry Redcliffe Broadhurst
• Victor Norman Chandler MM
• George Chistopher Dalziell DCM
• Albert John Egan MID
• Arthur Frederick William Eivers
• John Edwin Ffoulkes DCM
• George Weston Firns
• James Owen Horrocks
• James Kershaw
• Arthur Thomas Lester
• Angus Lindt
• Alfred Arthur Martin
• Hector Lionel Saw
• Frederick Selkirk
• John Harold Rupert Smith
• William George Tait

Other Voyages

• 14 March 1916 from Melbourne, Victoria
• 24 August 1916 from Sydney, New South Wales; 28 August 1916 from Adelaide.
• 24 January 1917 from Sydney, New South Wales
• 28 August 1916 from Adelaide, South Australia
• 22 August - 5 October 1919 (Plymouth to Adelaide)