Lance Corporal RODERICK MACDONALD
Last address in Lewis: 23 East Street, Sandwick
Service unit: 2nd South African Infantry
Service number: 13116
Date of death: 11 April 1918
Killed in action in France
Interred: Messines Ridge British Cemetery, grave V. C. 14
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
His brother Donald served with the Canadian Army; his brother Kenneth was in the RNR. Both survived the war.
Stornoway Gazette
From the "Natal Mercury" of 1 May 1918, we cull the following:
"The death of Pte Roderick Macdonald, 2nd SAI [South African Infantry]
will be regretted by a large circle of acquaintances. "Mac", although a
married man with two sons, thought it his duty to go overseas a year ago
and news has just been received that he made the supreme sacrifice on
April 11th, 1918."
He was a native of Sandwick.
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