John Macleod, 19 Knock, Point

Gunner JOHN MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 19 Knock, Point,
Service unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMS President III
Service number: 5415/A
Date of birth: 12 April 1891
Date of death: 2 February 1919 at the age of 28
Died of pneumonia in Glasgow
Interred: Aignish / Eye Cemetery, Lewis, grave E. 3. 30
Local memorial: Point (Garrabost)

John is shown on the 1901 census as a 9-year old scholar at 19 Knock, living with his father William (56, crofter fisherman) and siblings Maggie (26), Dolina (13), Malcolm (7) and William John (4).

His brothers Malcolm and William J. also served in the RNR, but survived the war.