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===Anzac Cove to Mudros 12 - 14 December 1915=== | ===Anzac Cove to Mudros 12 - 14 December 1915=== | ||
− | 28th Battalion, less its Machine Gunners (they were amongst the last to leave on the evening of the 19/20th | + | 28th Battalion, less its Machine Gunners (they were amongst the last to leave on the evening of the 19/20th December). |
* † [[William Barge]] | * † [[William Barge]] | ||
+ | * † [[Charles Barnett]] | ||
* † [[Harry Pickard]] | * † [[Harry Pickard]] | ||
* † [[Hubert Harris Thorp]] | * † [[Hubert Harris Thorp]] |
Revision as of 19:42, 15 February 2022
Remarks
Sometimes spelt as 'Osmanich'. Built for the Khedivial Mail Steamship and Graving Dock Co, Ltd, London, she was at the time of her loss, hired by the British Royal Navy as a troop transport. Her normal beat was the eastern Mediterranean Sea visiting Alexandria, Constantinople, and Syrian ports.
On 23 Jun 1917 the ship evaded two torpedoes fired by a German submarine, but on 31 Dec 1917 she was not as lucky when, with troops and medical personnel from Southampton aboard, she was sunk by a mine laid the previoous day by the German submarine UC-34 at the entrance to the Alexandria Harbour. The ship sank in five to seven minutes, killing 199 people, including her Captain and 23 of the crew, a Royal Navy officer, 166 other ranks and the eight nurses of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.
Soldiers carried
Anzac Cove to Mudros 12 - 14 December 1915
28th Battalion, less its Machine Gunners (they were amongst the last to leave on the evening of the 19/20th December).