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HMAT A7 Medic
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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

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


James Candish

Sydney to Halifax 1 Aug 1917 - 21 Sep 1917

Eugene Anthony Gillespie
Harold Percival Martin

Return to Fremantle 24 Aug 1918 - 15 Oct 1918==

George Henry Martin MM Mid