Quarter-master JOHN MACARTHUR
Last address in Lewis: 42 Park Carloway,
Service unit: South Africans
Date of death: 1 October 1918
Local memorial: Carloway
Served from 1916 till invalided in August 1917.
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Roderick Macdonald, 23 East Street, Sandwick
Lance Corporal RODERICK MACDONALD
Last address in Lewis: 23 East Street, Sandwick
Service unit: 2nd South African Infantry
Service number: 13116
Date of death: 11 April 1918
Killed in action in France
Interred: Messines Ridge British Cemetery, grave V. C. 14
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
His brother Donald served with the Canadian Army; his brother Kenneth was in the RNR. Both survived the war.
Stornoway Gazette
From the "Natal Mercury" of 1 May 1918, we cull the following:
"The death of Pte Roderick Macdonald, 2nd SAI [South African Infantry] will be regretted by a large circle of acquaintances. "Mac", although a married man with two sons, thought it his duty to go overseas a year ago and news has just been received that he made the supreme sacrifice on April 11th, 1918."
He was a native of Sandwick.
Last address in Lewis: 23 East Street, Sandwick
Service unit: 2nd South African Infantry
Service number: 13116
Date of death: 11 April 1918
Killed in action in France
Interred: Messines Ridge British Cemetery, grave V. C. 14
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
His brother Donald served with the Canadian Army; his brother Kenneth was in the RNR. Both survived the war.
Stornoway Gazette
From the "Natal Mercury" of 1 May 1918, we cull the following:
"The death of Pte Roderick Macdonald, 2nd SAI [South African Infantry] will be regretted by a large circle of acquaintances. "Mac", although a married man with two sons, thought it his duty to go overseas a year ago and news has just been received that he made the supreme sacrifice on April 11th, 1918."
He was a native of Sandwick.
Hector Macleod, 11 Branahuie
Corporal HECTOR MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 11 Branahuie,
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Angus MacLeod. of 11, Branahuie, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Service unit: Transvaal Scottish / 8th Regiment South African Infantry
Service number: 3745
Date of death: 23 March 1917 at the age of 38
Died in hospital in South Africa
Interred: Boksburg Cemetery, grave A. 575
Local memorial: Branahuie / Melbost
Hector is shown in the 1891 census as a 12-year old scholar at 11 Branahuie with his parents Angus (44, crofter and fisherman) and Catherine (39) as well as siblings Angus (14), Robert (9), John (6), Ann (3) and Bella and Mary Ann (both aged 9 months - twins?).
His brother John served in the Canadian Army but survived the war.
Last address in Lewis: 11 Branahuie,
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Angus MacLeod. of 11, Branahuie, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Service unit: Transvaal Scottish / 8th Regiment South African Infantry
Service number: 3745
Date of death: 23 March 1917 at the age of 38
Died in hospital in South Africa
Interred: Boksburg Cemetery, grave A. 575
Local memorial: Branahuie / Melbost
Hector is shown in the 1891 census as a 12-year old scholar at 11 Branahuie with his parents Angus (44, crofter and fisherman) and Catherine (39) as well as siblings Angus (14), Robert (9), John (6), Ann (3) and Bella and Mary Ann (both aged 9 months - twins?).
His brother John served in the Canadian Army but survived the war.
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