Convoy Walk

Convoy walk consists of 21 markers containing information about the ships and escorts of the First and Second Convoys, The walk connects the National ANZAC centre with Convoy Lookout.

The panels show the ships that gathered in King George Sound in 1914 to take ANZAC troops to the battlefields of the First World War.
Albany was chosen as the assembly point for the first two convoys carrying troops and horses to Europe and Gallipoli because of its large, sheltered harbour and existing port facilities.
Albany was chosen as the assembly point for the first two convoys of ships.
Approximately 40,000 troops and 17,000 horses were transported aboard 54 Australian and New Zealand ships in the two largest convoys to leave Australia. All these men boarded in ports on the east coast.
Between November 1914 and May 1919, more than 240 troop and hospital ships docked in Albany, where many sick and wounded were treated at Albany Hospital. Memorial Park Cemetery on Middleton Road is the final resting place of some of them.
Today, 21 information boards line the Convoy Walk, providing information about the ships that were part of the convoy and their crews. The walk leads from the parade ground of the Princess Royal Fortress to the Convoy Lookout at the top of Mount Adelaide.

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