Corporal ANGUS MACIVER
Last address in Lewis: 9A Laxay,
Son of Angus and Mary MacIver, of Laxay
Husband
of Jessie MacIver, of 2145, 10th Avenue West, Vancouver, British
Columbia.
Service unit: 12th Field Coy Canadian Engineers
Service number: 504660
Date of death: 25 August 1916 at the age of 35
Killed in action
Interred: Spoilbank Cemetery, grave I. K. I.
Local memorial: Kinloch, Laxay
Shot through the heart and killed instantly while giving an order in the trenches in France
Date of birth: 17 September 1881
Height: 5 ft 8 in
Complexion: Fair
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Fair
Religion: Presbyterian
Trade / occupation: Stonemason & bricklayer
Last address in Lewis: 9A Laxay
Marital status: Married
Next of kin: Mrs J Maciver, Wife, of 54, 5th Ave E, Vancouver
Volunteered at Vancouver on 21 January 1916
He had been a Director of the Gaelic Society in Vancouver and Financial Secretary and later Chief of the Clan Maclean Society.
Angus was one of the children of Angus (1843) and Mary (1847), the others being Alexander (1884), Donald (1879), Effie (1871), George (1885), John (1875), Kenneth (1877), Kenneth (1891) and Margaret (1873).
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