HMAT A24 Benalla

History
Name	HMAT A24 Benalla
Builder/Built	1913 Caird, of Greenock
Type	passenger / refrigerated cargo steamship (twin screw)
Displacement	11,118 tons
Speed	14 knots

Remarks

Built for Pacific & Orient Steam Navigation Co, London. Leased to the Commonwealth until 6 Aug 1917. Refitted at Cockatoo Island Drydock between 1st and 14th October 1915 to transport 1,395 troops. Made at least three voyages from Australia carrying troops.

Adelaide to Port Suez 27 October - ? December 1915

• Clarence Roy Champion joined in Fremantle 1 Nov 1915
• William Grenfell joined in Fremantle 1 Nov 1915
• Joseph Sowden Kidd joined in Fremantle 1 Nov 1915
• Samuel Vivian Mortimer
• Harold Stinton joined in Fremantle 1 Nov 1915
• Frank Erle Waters joined in Fremantle 1 Nov 1915

Fremantle to England 21 May - 19 July 1917

• Edith Marion Wilson

England to Fremantle 25 August - 17 October 1917

• Thomas Kinsman Bickell

England to Fremantle 2 April - 14 May 1919

• Douglas Gordon Scott MC