Second Officer JOHN MURDO NICOLSON
Last address in Lewis: 14 Plantation Road, Stornoway
Son of Robert Nicolson.
Brother of Isabella Nicolson, of 18, Hampden St., Glasgow. Born at Stornoway.
Service unit: Merchant Marine, SS Normandiet
Date of death: 21 April 1918 at the age of 33
Ship sunk by U-91, 34 miles SW of the Calf of Man
Memorial: Tower Hill
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial; Nicolson WW1 memorial, right panel
We find John Murdo in the 1891 census at 64 Keith Street, Stornoway, with his mother Christy (29, mason's wife) and his siblings Bella A (11), Alex Donald (9), Robert Norman (4) and Annabella (3). Alex Donald and Robert Norman were also lost in the Great War.
Stornoway Gazette, 3 May 1918
Many friends in Stornoway will regret to learn that John Murdo Nicolson, son of the late Robert Nicolson, Stornoway, was drowned on 21 April when the ship he was serving on as second officer was torpedoed. Another of Mr Nicolson's sons, Alex Dan, a carpetner in HM Australian Navy, died in hospital on 25 May 1915, while a third son, Robert Norman (Bobby), Seaforths, who was reported missing on 11 April 1917, is now officially reported killed on that day.
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