Donald Macleod, 14 Carloway


Sergeant DONALD MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 14 Carloway,
Son of Malcolm Macleod, of 14, Carloway, Stornoway, Lewis.
Service unit: 3rd Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 3/5612
Enlisted at Inverness
Date of death: 10 October 1918 at the age of 20
Drowned when SS Leinster was sunk by UB-123 between Holyhead and Dublin
Memorial: Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton,
Mentioned on family gravestone in Dalmore Cemetery, Lewis
Local memorial: Carloway
Had gone to France at age 16 and was wounded there

Five of his brothers served in the war and survived. Norman was in the Ross Mountain Battery, Duncan in the Seaforth Highlanders, Malcolm John in the RNR and Allan and John in the US Army.

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