Lance Corporal DONALD MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 36 Bayhead Street, Stornoway
Son of John Macleod
Service unit: 2nd Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: S/13698
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 12 April 1917 at the age of 20
Killed in action
Interred: Aubigny Communal Cemetery extension, grave II. A. 69.
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
Had been ranching in Argentina and came home at own expense to enlist
Battalion war diary
The battalion is in action around Fampoux, northern France.
The posts [established the previous night] were maintained until the attack of the 9th Div when they were shelled out by the bombardment of our own artillery. 2 men were killed, 4 wounded and a Lewis gun put out of action.
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