Image courtesy Clan Macrae Roll of Honour
Seaman ALEX MACRAE
Last address in Lewis: 10 Aignish
Son of Evander and Christina MacRae, of 10, Aignish, Stornoway, Ross-shire.
Service unit: HMT Calliope II, Royal Naval Reserve
Service number: 7255DA
Year of birth: 1891
Date of death: 3 March 1916 at the age of 25
Drowned at sea in collision with SS Dane off Butt of Lewis
Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 19,
Local memorial: Point (Garrabost)
Alexander appears in the 1891 census as the 5-month old son of Evander (fisherman, 38) and Christina (40), with his sisters Catherine (5) and Mary (3) and older brother Murdo (8).
The latter served in the Manchester Regiment.
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