Murdo Macleod, 18 Lower Shader

Seaman MURDO MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 18 Lower Shader
Son of John Macleod, of 18, Lower Shader, Barvas, Stornoway.
Service unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Victory
Service number: 4444/A
Date of death: 20 January 1919 at the age of 28
Was invalided home and died there
Interred: Barvas Cemetery
Local memorial: North Lewis, Borve

Murdo appears in the 1901 census at 18 Shader, aged 11, the son of John and Chirsty (both aged 50), and brother of Kenneth (17), Norman (12), Malm [Malcolm] (8) and Mary (16). 

His brother Malcolm also served in the RNR and survived the war. 

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