John Macmillan, Cross Street, Coulregrein

Private JOHN MACMILLAN
Last address in Lewis: Cross Street, Coulregrein,
Son of Annie and Malcolm Macmillan
Service unit: 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion
Service number: 718448
Date of death: 8 August 1918 at the age of 36
Killed in action
Interred: Hangard Communal Cemetery extension, grave I. A. 25
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial

Date of birth: 15 March 1882
Place of birth: Isle of Lewis
Height: 5 ft 4 in
Complexion: Dark
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Greyish
Religion: Presbyterian
Trade / occupation: Labourer
Current address: Grandview, Manitoba

Volunteered at Winnipeg on 7 February 1916

John is shown in the 1891 census as a 16-year old, living at "Laxdale and Goathill Road no 13" with his parents Malcolm (57) and Annie (50) as well as his siblings Malcolm (20), Mary Ann (13), Alexanderina (10) and Donald (8).

His brother Donald served in the Army Medical Corps and survived the war.

Stornoway Gazette
It was with deep and widespread regret it became known that Mrs Malcolm Macmillan, 13 Coulregrein, had received news that her son, Pte John Macmillan, Canadian Mounted Rifles, had fallen in action on 8 August 1918. Pte Macmillan, aged 42, had been in Canada for a number of years before the outbreak of war and was in the fighting line in France for the past two years. He was always bright and cheery and was a general favourite among his acquaintances. The sympathy of the whole community is extended to his widowed mother, sisters and brother in their great loss.