The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A Victorian battalion marching onto the Port Melbourne pier to embark for service overseas. The troopship at left is the Orient liner HMAT Orvieto (A3), the flagship of the Australian convoy.
Victorian infantry embarking on HMAT Hororata (A20), at the Port Melbourne pier. At left is HMAT Orvieto (A3), the flagship of the convoy. Note the train on the rail tracks beside the troops marching
The first convoy of Australian troopships lying outside Colombo Harbour en route to Egypt. The ship with two funnels is the Orient liner HMAT Orvieto (A3), which was the flagship of the convoy.
The transport HMAT Orvieto (A3) seen from the transport HMAT Wiltshire (A18) at the Egyptian port. An Orient liner, the Orvieto was requisitioned for use as an Australian transport and was the flagsh
Transports of the first Australian convoy at Aden port, Yemen. The flagship of the convoy, HMAT Orvieto (A3), is lying in the foreground.
The 5th Battalion, AIF, moving along the Port Melbourne railway pier to embark on HMT Orvieto (A3).
The Royal Navy armoured cruiser HMS Hampshire and the troopship HMAT Orvieto in the Gulf of Aden. HMS Hampshire joined the first Australian convoy as an escort, and the convoy flagship, on 13 November
