John Morrison, 13 South Bragar

Private JOHN MORRISON
Last address in Lewis: 13 South Bragar,
Son of Robert and Peggy Ann Morrison, of 13, South Bragar, Stornoway.
Service unit: 10th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Service number: 29043
Enlisted at Glasgow
Date of death: 7 July 1917 at the age of 19
Killed in action in France
Interred: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, grave XIV. B. 10
Local memorial: West Side, Bragar

John appears in the 1901 census, aged 3, the son of Robert (39) and Peggy Ann (37), brother of Neil (9), Marion (7) and Joan (5). 

His brother Neil was a piper in the Seaforth Highlanders and was wounded in 1914. He survived the war.

Stornoway Gazette
Mr Robert Morrison, 13 South Bragar, has received official notification that his son, Pte John Morrison, Royal Scots Fusiliers, has been killed in action. Young Morrison, who was only 19 years of age, had not been very long at the front. Previous to his enlistment he was for a time employed in Glasgow. He was a dutiful son, and his sorrowing parents have the sympathy of all in the neighbourhood.

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