These last however many blog entries all started with an article I printed last week on April 9th about Wold War I graffiti discovered in Naours Cave in France and then has gotten all the way here. No wonder it takes so long to do these blogs. One things just leads to another. So far I have written 11 entries stemming from this.
Anyway, this is the ship that Herbert John Leach embarked on for World War I and his death.
From Australian War Memorial site.
HMAT stands for His Majesty's Australian Transport.
A fleet of ships was leased by the Commonwealth to transport troops in various A.I.F. unites overseas. This fleet was made up of British and captured German ships. The HMAT Hororata was 9,400 tons with an average cruising speed of 14 knots owned by the New Zealand Shipping Co., Ltd. of London and leased by the Commonwealth until September 11, 1917.
--Cooter
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