HMAT A68 Anchises
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HMAT A68 Anchises | |
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HMAT A68 Anchises |
Builder/Built | 1911 in Belfast |
Type | SS Troopship |
Displacement | 10,046 tons |
Speed | 10 knots |
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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
Sydney to Liverpool 8 August - 2 October 1917
England to Fremantle 1 November - 25 December 1917
Devonport to Albany 28 February - 7 April 1919
- Ronald Adolphous Julian Batt
- Edward Briggs
- Harry Redcliffe Broadhurst
- Victor Norman Chandler MM
- Albert John Egan MiD
- John Edwin Ffoulkes DCM
- George Weston Firns
- James Kershaw
- Angus Lindt
- Alfred Arthur Martin
- James O'Brien
- Hector Lionel Saw
- Frederick Selkirk
- John Harold Rupert Smith
- William George Tait
Post WW1 Men