0 poppies laid on this site
In memory of:

Fireman and Trimmer Ernest Rochester MacLeod

Profile image
Merchant Navy emblem

Military service

Age: 30
Rank: Fireman and Trimmer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Sirikishna (Leith, Scotland) (164367)
Birth: January 1, 1911 Scotland
Death: February 24, 1941 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 98.
Additional information
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.

Related media

Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 262 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
Request this page Download this page

TOWER HILL MEMORIAL London, United Kingdom

THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

The Poppy Design is a trademark of The Royal Canadian Legion (Dominion Command) and is used with permission. Click here to learn more about the poppy.

Did we miss something?

Contribute information to this commemorative page

Do you have photographs, information or a correction relating to this individual’s virtual memorial? Learn more about the CVWM and the information we collect.

Send us your images
Submit a correction
Date modified: