Fireman and Trimmer Ernest Rochester MacLeod

Son of David Cunningham Hill and Margaret Banks Watters of Lybster, Caithness-shire, Scotland. David was a private and driver in the 23rd Airline Section of the Royal Engineers Regiment, regimental number 50887. He died at sea on 26 October 1915 aboard HMT Aquitania, possibly as a result of wounds sustained in action at Gallipoli, Turkey. His mother remarried Donald Angus MacLeod.

On 24 February 1941, at 2:20 a.m., the 46-ship convoy OB-288 was dispersed west of Rockall, a rocky massif between Ireland and Iceland, by the attack of U-96. The Sirikishna is torpedoed on the port side. At 8:36 a.m. she received a coup de grace and sank rapidly, broken in two, position 58°00'N/21°00'W. She was the flagship of the convoy. The captain, the commodore, 5 naval personnel, the 34 crew members and the two gunners lost their lives.