Scottish War Memorials Project-http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2186&mforum=warmemscot

Photographs-https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/162823/

SS Observer- The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk on 16 December 1942 in the South Atlantic 350 nautical miles (650 km) east of Cape São Roque, Brazil (5°30′S 31°00′W) by U-176 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 66 of her 81 crew

Empire Spring was a 6,946 GRT CAM ship which was built by Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow. Launched on 8 March 1941 and completed in June 1941. Torpedoed on 14 February 1942 and sunk by U-576 in the North Atlantic

Details about HMS Pollock (Note that John Malcolm Reid (LT/JX 280032) died on 16 January 1944 and is buried at Bari War cemetery, Italy)-https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/6272.html

HMS Cochrane II was the Rosyth supply and accounting base for tenders between 1940 and 1945

Information about RFA Scotal (AKA RFA Scotol)-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFA_Scotol

Information about the loss of HM Submarine E26-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_E26

Information about SS Polymnia-Polymnia was a 2,426 GRT steam cargo ship completed in 1903 by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg for Woermann Linie KG as Henriette Woermann. From 1917 she was owned by Kaye, Son & Co. Ltd. and renamed Polymnia. She was sunk on 15 May 1917 by torpedo fired by German submarine UC-75 at position 49° 54' N, 05° 34' W - approximately 15 nautical miles West of The Lizard. She was en route from Huelva and Lisbon to the UK with a cargo of iron ore and fruit.

William John Reid (buried at Plockton Churchyard)-https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/7673594

Information about HMS Halcyon (Deck Hand Peter MacInnes, DA/13395, died 28 December 1916 and is buried at Asgaig Cemetery, isle of Skye)-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Halcyon_(1894)