Crew of the SS Cortona
Commemorated on Tower Hill Memorial Panel 32
plus two Canadians on the Halifax Memorial

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER, Steward, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 34. Son of John and Catherine Campbell

CAMPION, JOHN AUSTIN, Sailor, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 11th July 1942. Age 26. Son of John and Mary Campion; husband of Edna Campion, of Tranmere, Birkenhead.

CARLEY, DOUGLAS, Able Seaman, S. S. Cortona (Glasgow). Canadian Merchant Navy 14th July 1942

CARTER, ARTHUR EDWARD, Fifth Engineer Officer, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 31. Son of Josiah and Catherine Carter.

CLARKSON, ALFRED, Able Seaman, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 27. Son of Algie and Mary Clarkson

CLOUTER, RAYMOND CLIFFORD, Cadet, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 18.

COCHRANE, JAMES KENNETH, Cadet, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 18. Son of James Stormont Cochrane and Octavia Smith Cochrane, of Glasgow.

COLQUHOUN, ROBERT, Steward, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 11th July 1942. Age 23. Son of Thomas and Margaret Colquhoun, of Gartcosh, Lanarkshire.

CURRIE, ANDREW, Fourth Engineer Officer, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 28. Son of Robert and Elizabeth Currie.

FERETTA, KENNETH BOLTON, Able Seaman, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 28. Son of Jerome and Mary Feretta.

FERNS, JOHN JOSEPH, Fireman, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 41. Husband of Rose Ann Ferns, of Huyton, Lancashire

GRAHAM, RICHARD, Donkeyman, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 29. Son of Richard and Ann Graham; husband of Ellen Graham, of Bootle, Lancashire.

HARDING, AMBROSE, Able Seaman, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow) Canadian Merchant Navy. 17th July 1942. Age 22.

HEADRICK, DUNCAN GOW, Second Engineer Officer, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 41. Son of Robert and Helen MacNaughton Headrick; husband of Marion Grieve Headrick, of Kirn, Dunoon, Argyllshire.

HUGHES, ERIC WILLIAM EVELYN, First Radio Officer, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 38. Son of William Faulkner Hughes and Evelyn Charlotte Hughes; husband of Lily May Hughes, of Moordown, Bournemouth, Hampshire.

KENYON, ERNEST JAMES, Second Radio Officer, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 26. Son of Ernest and Barbara Ethel Kenyon, of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.

LAWRENCE, CECIL HERBERT, Sailor, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 22.

MUIRHEAD, ROBERT, Able Seaman, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 21.

McBLAIN, ALEXANDER CROSSAN, Fireman, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 22. Grandson of Sarah Hodgson, of Sharlston Common, Yorkshire.

McCALL, ALAN DEMPSTER, Apprentice, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 11th July 1942. Age 17. Son of Thomas and Jane Clark McCall, of Glasgow.

McDOUGALL, WALTER DUGALD, Assistant Steward, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 25. Nephew of Janet Leitch, of Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire.

McKEITH, ROBERT, Chief Steward, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 42. Son of Robert and Alice McKeith, of Glasgow; husband of Mary McKeith.

McLEAN, ROBERT HADDOW, Boatswain, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 44.

PARRISH, HARRY, Chief Officer, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 32. Son of Harry and Matilda Parrish; husband of E. M. O. Parrish, of Southsea, Hampshire.

ROBERTS, THOMAS, Able Seaman, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 11th July 1942. Age 40. Son of William and Mary Roberts; husband of Ellen Roberts, of Four Mile Bridge, Anglesey.

ROBERTSON, JAMES PATTERSON, Chief Engineer Officer, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 54. Son of John W. and Barbara A. Robertson; husband of Mary Forbes Robertson, of Greenock, Renfrewshire.

SCOTT, WILLIAM GEORGE, Donkeyman, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 35. Son of Lenard and Catherine Scott; husband of Frances Scott, of Bootle, Lancashire.

STRACHAN, WILLIAM CAMERON, Storekeeper, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 38. Son of Peter and Elsie Ann Strachan, of Troon, Ayrshire.

WILLIAMSON, FRANK EDWARD, Ordinary Seaman, S.S. Cortona (Glasgow). Merchant Navy. 14th July 1942. Age 16. Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Williamson, of Wanstead, Essex.

Information kindly supplied by Billy McGee (http://www.british-merchant-navy.co.uk)