Last address in Lewis: 33 Church Street, Stornoway
Son of John and Rachel Maclean
Service unit: Gordon Highlanders, Depot
Service number: 3/6127
Date of death: 18 March 1919 at the age of 25
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery, northeast Old Ground, grave 427
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial; Nicolson WW1 memorial, middle panel
Mobilised with Gordons in 1914. Taken prisoner after the retreat from Mons, and was 4 years and 3 months as a prisoner in Germany.
Died at the Caledonian Hotel in Stornoway of heart failure. His father, John, was a journeyman tailor
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