HMAT A7 Medic
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Name | HMAT A7 Medic |
Builder/Built | 1899 Harland & Wolff,Belfast |
Type | Passenger / cargo vessel (twin screw) |
Displacement | 11,985 tons |
Speed | 14 knots |
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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
Fremantle to Alexandria 2 Nov 1914 - 3 Dec 1914
James (Roy) Braidwood MM MID
Leonard Henry (Lennie) Buckingham MM
Frederick Fancote
Charles Richard Irvine MM & Bar
William Stephens
John Wesley Gladstone Turner
Fremantle to Alexandria 9 Oct 1915 - ??
Walter Raymond Farnham as a stowaway
Fremantle to Alexandria 18 Jan 1916 - 16 Feb 1916
Frederick Thornton Lindley
Richard Edgar Riley
Fremantle to Port Suez 31 Mar 1916 - 24 Apr 1916
Sydney to Halifax 1 Aug 1917 - 21 Sep 1917
Eugene Anthony Gillespie
Harold Percival Martin
Return to Fremantle 24 Aug 1918 - 15 Oct 1918==