Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Ernest Rochester MacLeod
In memory of:
Fireman and Trimmer Ernest Rochester MacLeod
February 24, 1941
North Atlantic
Military Service
30
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Sirikishna (Leith, Scotland) (164367)
Additional Information
January 1, 1911
Scotland
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.
Commemorated on Page 262 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
London, United Kingdom
Panel 98.
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.
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