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HMAT A7 Medic
HMAT A7 Medic.jpg
History
Name HMAT A7 Medic
Builder/Built 1899 Harland & Wolff,Belfast
Type Passenger / cargo vessel (twin screw)
Displacement 11,985 tons
Speed 14 knots


Remarks

Built for the Oceanic Steam Navigation Co Ltd (White Star Line), and used on the UK to Sydney via Cape Town route. Capable of carrying 320 cabin class passengers.

Her first return trip involved carrying Victorian, Tasmanian and Western Australian troops to the Boer War.

Leased by the Commonwealth until 26 Oct 1917, she was a participant in the 1st convoy from Albany to Egypt. On her return to Australia she was converted at Cockatoo Island Drydock to transport 531 troops and 500 horses.

List of soldiers carried

James (Roy) Braidwood MM MID
Leonard Henry (Lennie) Buckingham MM
James Candish
Frederick Fancote
Waler Raymond Farnham as a stowaway