M.S.ABA 1922

[inniskilling dragoons]

Hello.

I am trying to trace which regiment the soldiers which were on board M.S ABA on its journey back to England from Africa in 1922 were in.

M.S ABA docked in England on 19/02/1922.

Could they be Royal Engineers

Thanks in advance.

[melliget]

Hi.

If you have no luck from other sources, perhaps look at this National Archives item:

Item BT 26/710/79

BT 26: Inwards Passenger Lists

Liverpool: MS Aba (British and African Steam Navigation Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool.

Embarking at Lagos, Accra,Sekondi, Sierra Leone and Grand Canary.

Official Number: 141887.

List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Covering dates 1922 Feb 21

The Aba seems to have made this same voyage 6 times in 1922:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalog...&image1.y=7

Some brief technical details from a New York Times article:

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/...9679C946395D6CF

There's a photo of ABA here:

http://www.britisharmedforces.org/pages/nat_troopships.htm

Martin

[inniskilling dragoons]

Hello Martin

Thank you very much for taking the trouble to reply.

The information is most helpful and interesting.

On the passenger boarding list there is a list of soliders but I cannot see any regiment names,as I tracing Royal Engineers whom serverd in WW1 and continued service after the war.

What could Royal Engineers be doing in Africa in 1922 ?.

Thanks for your help