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Sea transport of the A.I.F. / prepared in Naval Transport Board by Greville Tregarthen
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[Melbourne?]: Naval Transport Board
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[19--]
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186 p. : ill. (folded) ; 24 cm.
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Abstract:
A very rare book outlining how the Australian Infantry Force (AIF) was transported overseas during the First World War. A comprehensive source of information on troop transports, including horse transport. Contains photographs.
Contents:
War -- The making of a transport fleet -- Delays -- The concentration of the first convoy -- The second convoy -- The ex-enemy ships -- Representation in England -- The carriage of Australian produce -- Rates of hire -- Insurance -- Hostility in neutral
ports -- Casualties -- Number of vessels requisitioned by the Commonwealth -- The liner requisition scheme -- Hospital ships and sundry matters -- Horses -- Embarkation at each port -- Disembarkation at Australian ports on voyage outward -- Summary of outward cargo -- Dates of transfer of vessels from control of branch -- Dates of sailings of transports in each convoy.
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