Mudcat is brilliant! I just entered "Arctic Convoys" into the search box and up came this thread! Why was I looking? Well, during this year's Edinburgh Festival, the theme of one of the exhibitions in St Mary's Episcopalian Cathedral in Edinburgh will be the Arctic Convoys. My friends and I in Scots Music Group have been putting on a couple of concerts for the last 5 years, trying to play/sing anything that fits the theme of the year. We have a few ideas from current repertoire, and I have also been listening to Dave Roylance's "The Battle of the Atlantic" suite, but don't think we can match the full Halle Orchestra and choir + Lesley Garrett!
It would be great to use some of the songs above, if we can get the tunes.
I believe there was a presentation of medals to some of the surviving veterans of this wartime service, just in the last year or 2.