HMAT A68 Anchises
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 HMAT A68 Anchises | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name |
HMAT A68 Anchises |
| Builder/Built | 1911 in Belfast |
| Type | SS Troopship |
| Displacement | 10,046 tons |
| Speed | 10 knots |
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[hide]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
Sailed 26 August 1915 from Melbourne, Victoria
- † Frederick James Bishop
- Reginald Thomas (Reg) Cockshott
- Victor Thomas Emanuel Compassi
- George Chistopher Dalziell DCM
- Angus Lindt
- † Ernest Edward Lockhart
- † Frederick William Wallace Moore
- Joseph Pulford
- Edward William Tink
Sydney to Liverpool 8 August - 2 October 1917
England to Fremantle 1 November - 25 December 1917
Devonport to Albany 28 February - 7 April 1919
- Edgar Copley Adams MID
- Percival (Peter) Clement Bassett
- Ronald Adolphous Julian Batt
- Edward Briggs
- Harry Redcliffe Broadhurst
- Victor Norman Chandler MM
- George Chistopher Dalziell DCM
- Albert John Egan MID
- Arthur Frederick William Eivers
- John Edwin Ffoulkes DCM
- George Weston Firns
- James Owen Horrocks
- James Kershaw
- Arthur Thomas Lester
- Angus Lindt
- Alfred Arthur Martin
- Hector Lionel Saw
- Frederick Selkirk
- John Harold Rupert Smith
- William George Tait
Other Voyages
- 14 March 1916 from Melbourne, Victoria
- 24 August 1916 from Sydney, New South Wales; 28 August 1916 from Adelaide.
- 24 January 1917 from Sydney, New South Wales
- 28 August 1916 from Adelaide, South Australia
- 22 August - 5 October 1919 (Plymouth to Adelaide)