Last address in Lewis: 16 Knock, Point
Son of Malcolm and Christina Murray, of 16, Knock, Point, Stornoway.
Service unit: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, 2nd Reserve Battallion Royal Naval Division
Service number: R/2220
Date of death: 2 February 1920 at the age of 22
Interred: Eye / Aignish Cemetery, grave E. 4. 27
Died after Demob. at 8.15am in the Seaforth Sanitorium, Maryburgh, Fodderty, Ross-shire, from Tubercle of Lungs - Chronic.
Service history:
Ex-120945 Private 2/1st Lothians & Border Horse (10 months) ;
Gordon Highlanders (2 years 6 months) ; Enlisted Edinburgh 20/2/14 ; Service in France 29 days ;
Entered RNVR for RND 16/6/17 ;
Draft for British Expeditionary Force 4/7/17,
Joined Howe Bn [RND] 1/9/17-30/12/17 missing,
POW ;
Repatriated 7/1/19
Demob. at Kinross 14/3/19.
William appears on the 1901 census as a 3-year old, living with his parents Malcolm (40, crofter fisherman) and Christina (32) as well as his grandmother Rachel (74), aunt Christina (32) and siblings Dolina (5) and Mary Ann (less than 1 year old).
It should be noted that William is quoted on the Roll of Honour as a private in the Gordon Highlanders. This was the case when the first edition of the Roll was published early in 1916; his transfer to the RND was not copied into the 1921 edition.
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