HMT Ivernia
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Owned by Cunard Steam Ship Company. he made her maiden voyage, from Liverpool to New York, on 14 April 1900. Two months later she was placed on the Liverpool-Boston route for which she was intended, and remained on that route until December 1911. Ivernia was then placed on a Trieste-New York route and remained there until World War I, except for the winter of 1912-13, when she returned to the Boston-Liverpool route.
She was taken over as a troopship in September 1914.
Ivernia was torpedoed and sunk on New Year's Day 1917 by German U Boat-47 off Cape Matapan, Greece while carrying 2,400 Scottish troops from Marseilles to Alexandria. Eighty five soldiers and thirty six crew died.
Soldiers carried
Alexandria to Mudros 4 - 7 September 1915
On 10 Sep 1915 all boarded HMT Sarnia for the journey to Anzac Cove
- † William Barge
- † Charles Barnett
- William Michael Bowman
- Arthur Percy Thomas Boyle
- Edward Briggs
- † John McLeod Brown
- † Oswald Chorlton
- William Edward Clarence Green
- Walter Hayward
- Frederick Hobbs
- † John Hobbs
- † Stephen Henry Horrocks
- Henry Richard Keefe
- † Basil Kelley
- William Alfred Leaver MC MM
- † Harry Pickard
- Henry George Price
- Reginald Grove Sexty MID
- † Roland Parker Shelley
- Arnold Thorp
England to Alexandria ?? - 16 February 1916
Alexandria to Marseilles France 22 - 28 Mar 1916
Alexandria to Marseilles 5 - 12 June 1916
- Edward Patrick Barker
- George Edward Binns
- Clyde Bird
- Thomas Bird
- † John McLeod Brown
- William Edward Butcher MM RMG MID
- Victor Norman Chandler MM
- † Bernard William Chatfield
- Henry Thomas Cockram
- George Sidney Cook
- Francis Crowe
- † Walter Edward Dalziell
- Charles Henry Davis
- Gordon Devereux MM post WW1 men
- Alexander Donald
- Victor Emanuel Durling
- Albert John Egan MID
- † Charles Maul Glover
- † John Francis Grabham MM
- † John Huntley
- Walter David Francis Kerridge
- Thomas William Kerry
- Alexander Russell Main
- † Leonard Roy Matthews
- Charles Frederick McKay
- † Keith George Harman Podger
- † Charles Joseph Gerald Raynor
- † Lawrence Adrian Renou DCM
- Francis Henry Ryniker
- Henry Giles Schmidt
- † Ernest Selkirk MID
- Frederick Selkirk
- † Frank Leslie Sexton