Private FINLAY MACLEAN
Last address in Lewis: 21 Callanish,
Service unit: 2nd Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: 3/7344
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 14 April 1917 at the age of 19
Killed in action in France
Interred: Brown's Copse Cemetery Roeux, III. F. 15.
Local memorial: East Loch Roag, Callanish
Finlay appears in the 1901 census at 21B Callanish, aged 4, the son of Finlay (51) and Annie (44) and brother of Mary (16), Donald (12), Chirsty (10), Donald (8), Kenneth (5) and Maggie Ann (2).
His brothers Kenneth and Donald also served in the Seaforths, and were killed in action in 1917 and 1916 respectively. His brother Hugh also served, but survived the war.
Battalion war diary for 14 April 1917
The battalion is in action around Fampoux, northern France
The Bn was removed to the Black Line and remained there.
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