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 four voyages from Australia carrying troops before being transferred to the British Admiralty on 6 Aug 1917.

Soldiers carried

Adelaide to Port Suez 27 October - ? November 1915

• Clarence Roy Champion joined in Fremantle 1 Nov 1915
• William Grenfell joined in Fremantle 1 Nov 1915
• Joseph Sowden Kidd MM 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

England to Fremantle 13 February - 3 April 1917

• Alfred Warburton Chapman (Snr)

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