Neil Maclean, 14 Leurbost

Leading Seaman NEIL MACLEAN
Last address in Lewis: 14 Leurbost,
Son of Maggie MacLean, of 14, Leurbost, and the late Neil MacLean.
Service unit: Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, HMCS Galiano
Service number: VR/5016
Date of death: 30 October 1918 at the age of 34
Lost at sea in shipwreck
Memorial: Victoria Memorial, Vancouver Island,
Local memorial: North Lochs, Crossbost

Stornoway Gazette
In the Vancouver Daily Sun of 5 November 1918, among a list of 36 men missing from the patrol boat Galliano, which was wrecked off the coast of British Columbia, we observe the name of Neil Maclean, Stornoway, Scotland.

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