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{{Infobox ship
| image          = [[File:RMS_Queen_Mary.jpg]]
| caption        = Queen Mary in her resting place at Long Beach California
| image2         = [[File:RMS_Queen_Mary_1.jpg]]
| caption2       = Queen Mary during fit out
| shipname = HMT Queen Mary
| shipowner = Cunard, White Star Line
| shipbuilder = 1936 John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland
| shipyardnumber = 534
| shiplaunched = 26 Sep 1934
| shipcompleted = March 1936
| shipinservice = 1936
| shipoutofservice = 1967
| shipinservice2 =	
| shipoutofservice2 =
| shipreclassified =	
| shipID =
| shipfate = Museum ship
| shiptype =	Passenger Liner
| shiptonnage = 81,237 tons
| shiplength = 1,019'6" (310.74m)
| shipbeam = 118' (35.97m)
| shipdepth = 38'10" (11.83m)
| shippropulsion = 4 x turbines	
| shipspeed =	28.5 knots
| shipcapacity = 10,595 troops
}}
==Remarks==
The ''RMS Queen Mary'' is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line – known as Cunard-White Star Line. Along with ''RMS Queen Elizabeth'' she was to provide a weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York. Her keel was laid down on 27 Dec 1930


With the outbreak of the Second World War, she was requisitioned by the Ministry of Shipping on 1 Mar 1940, and converted into a troopship to ferry Allied soldiers during the war. On 2 October 1942, ''Queen Mary'' accidentally sank one of her escort ships, slicing through the light cruiser ''HMS Curacoa'' off the Irish coast with a loss of 239 lives. ''Queen Mary'' was carrying thousands of Americans of the 29th Infantry Division to join the Allied forces in Europe.


She resumed commercial service during July 1947 before leaving Southampton for the last time on 31 October 1967 and sailed to the port of Long Beach, California, United States, where she remains permanently moored serving as a tourist attraction featuring restaurants, a museum and a hotel. 



===Soldiers carried===

===Cape Town to England 30 May - 17 Jun 1940===
*[[Raymond Eric Gerard Bennett]]


===Fremantle to Bombay 25 October - 7 November 1940===
2/16th Battalion
* [[James Henry Clarke]]

===Fremantle to Singapore 10 - 19 February 1941===
Convoy US9
* [[William Albert Arthur Parkin]]

===Fremantle to Middle East 9 - 23 September 1941===
Boarded 6th, sailed 9th September
* [[Claude Raymond Anderson]]
* [[Hubert Laurence Batt]]
* [[Graeme Patrick Benson]]
* [[Harry Alfred Curtis]]
* [[William George Davis]]
* [[Thomas Geoffrey Eliot]] 
* [[Stanley Upton Hammond]]
* [[William John Eric Johnson]]
* [[Thomas Malarkey]]
* [[Len Malarkey]]
* [[Victor Henry Mead]]
* [[Frederick Thomas Orton Miller]]
* [[John William Pryor]]
* [[Edgar Paul Siebner]]
* [[Harold Jack Spencer]]
* [[Alexander William Turner MID]]
* [[Thomas John Walsh]]
* [[Edward Ernest Wilson]]

===Fremantle to Port Tewfik, Egypt 7 - 22 November 1941===
* [[Alan Clifton Navin Butcher]]
* [[Albert Charles Gregory]]
* [[Stanley Rudolph Jarvis]]

=== Suez to Fremantle via Massawa & Maldive Islands 24 January - 18 February 1943===

2/28th Australian Infantry Battalion
* † [[George Brushmeyer]]
* [[Albert William Chadwick]]
* [[Lawrence Gerald McDonough]]
* [[Thomas Stanley O'Meagher]]
* [[Walter Vivian Ernest Peters]]
* [[Frederick Joseph Powell]]
* [[John Peter Lewis Rymer]]
* [[Edward Arthur Sewell]]
* [[James Gordon (Jock) Wheeler]]

2/32nd Battalion
* [[Raymond Victor Clough]]
* [[Harry Alfred Curtis]]
* [[Douglas John Elliott]] 
* [[Stanley Upton Hammond]] 
* † [[Wallace Nelson McLauchlan]]
* † [[Bernard Sydney Smailes]]
* † [[Eric Stanley Southern]]
* [[Stephen Charles Southern]]
* [[Edward Ernest Wilson]]

2/43rd Battalion
* † [[David Robert Gerald Watts]]

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