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Summary of Embarkation for Queen Mary (HMT QX, also known as HMT XT or HMT X)

The following troops embarked on Queen Mary, Sydney, beginning on 2/2/1941, for the voyage to Singapore.

Serial No. Unit   Officers PO's, WO's & Sgts Ratings Other Ranks Total Shortages Total allotment Remarks
  O.C. Troops                
  8 Division HQ                
  8 Division Signals                
  8 Division Provost Company                
  HQ 22nd Infantry Brigade                
  2/18 Battalion                
  2/19 Battalion                
  2/20 Battalion                
  2/2 Ordnance Stores Company                
  2/4 A.Field Workshop                
  2/5 Field Hygiene Section                
  2/9 Field Ambulance                
  2/10 Field Regiment                
  2/10 Field Company                
  10 Australian General Hospital                
  4th Anti Tank Regiment, 1st Battery                
  69 Light Aid Detachment                
  73 Light Aid Detachment                
  74 Light Aid Detachment                
  Details 2nd Echelon                
  Details 8 Division Postal Unit                
  Sub. Section Field Bakery                
  8th DAC                
  Details Reserve Motor Transport Company                
  Brigade AASC Company                
  17 Dental Unit 1st Reinforcements              
  Command Cash Office                
  2 Special Mobile Bacterial Laboratory                
  4 Sup. Per. Sec. & Reinforcements                
  ADT&S                
  Salvation Army                
  Red Cross                
  YMCA                
  Australian Comforts Fund                
Total     338 361 5061 5760      

(Source: NAA: MP1049/5, 2026/13/1093)

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Last updated 14/02/2023