Corporal ROBERT MACAULAY
Last address in Lewis: 12 James Street, Stornoway
Service unit: 6th Cameron Highlanders
Service number: S/40635
Enlistment location: Glasgow
Date of death: 31 July 1917 at the age of 39
Killed in action
Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) memorial, panels 38 and 40
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
Robert Macaulay is also listed on the Stirling War Memorial. He was a grain merchant in Stirling.
Stirling Observer, 28th August 1917, page 3
STIRLING GRAIN TRAVELLER KILLED
Corporal Robert Macaulay
News has come to hand of the death in action in France of Corporal Robert Macaulay, Cameron Highlanders, who was well known in Stirling and district. Deceased was a native of Stornoway, and was for many years a grain traveller with Messrs D & J MacEwen & Coy, Stirling. Subsequently he was a partner of Messrs Farquhar, Macaulay & Coy, potato merchants, Stirling. Afterwards he was employed with a firm of grain merchants in Glasgow, making his headquarters in Stirling. He joined the Lovat Scouts two years ago, and was transferred to the Camerons. He had been in France for about eighteen months.
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