Lance Corporal DONALD MACRAE
Last address in Lewis: 6 Habost, Lochs,
Son of Roderick and Mary Macrae
Service unit: 1st Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: 3/5509
Enlisted at Inverness
Date of birth: 1893
Date of death: 12 December 1914 at the age of 21
Killed in action at Poperinghe
Interred: Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery, grave I. M. 33
Local memorial: Park, Kershader
First casualty from Kershader district to fall
Donald was one of the children of Roderick (1857) and Mary (1862), the others being Isabella (1896), John (1908), Malcolm (1891), Margaret (1900), Mary Ann (1902), Murdo (1886), Roderick (1889) and Roderick (1908).
His brothers Murdo and Roderick senior also served in the Seaforth Highlanders; Malcolm John was in the King's Own Scottish Borderers. These three all survived the war.
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