Seaman COLIN MACDONALD
Last address in Lewis: 2 Brue,
Son or Norman McDonald
Husband of Effie McDonald, of 2, Brue
Service unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Newmarket
Service number: 1515/C
Date of birth: August 1876
Date of death: 16 July 1917 at the age of 44
Ship torpedoed by UC-38 in the Aegean Sea
Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 26
Left a widow and four children
Colin appears in the 1881 census, aged 6, at 3 Brue Road, the son of Norman and Ann (both aged 38), brother of Murdoch (10), Henrietta (8), Mary Ann (5) and Norman (2).
His brother Murdo also served in the RNR, but survived the war.
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