Leading Deckhand DONALD MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 20 Balallan,
Son of Malcolm and Mary MacLeod, of Balallan, Stornoway;
Husband of Catherine MacLeod, of 20, Balallan, Stornoway, Ross-shire.
Service unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMT Sealark II
Service number: 12479DA
Date of birth: 29 November 1878
Date of death: 30 September 1918 at the age of 39
Drowned in Sealark due to collision
Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 30
Local memorial: Kinloch, Laxay
Leaves a widow, Catherine, whom he married in 1903.
Donald was one of the children of Malcolm (1835) and Janet (1860), the others being Donald (1880), John (1898, died aged 16), John (1893), Kenneth (1882), Malcolm (1878), Margaret (1884), Murdo (1890), Peter (1895) and Roderick Angus (1887).
His brother Murdo served in the Canadians and served in
France with Eaton Motor Machine Gun Corps. Wounded at Roye
His brother Peter served in the Seaforth Highlanders and served in
France; gunshot wound in right hand at Somme; invalided home in 1917. after 15
weeks in hospital.
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