Alexander Donald Macdonald, 37 Keith Street
Private ALEXANDER DONALD MACDONALD
Last address in Lewis: 37 Keith Street, Stornoway
Son of Donald and Mary Macdonald
Service unit: 14th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
Service number: S/11513
Enlisted at Glasgow
Date of death: 25 April 1917 at the age of 37
Died of wounds
Interred: Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, grave V. C. 4.
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial; Nicolson WW1 memorial, left panel
Alex Donald was mentioned in a tribute in the Stornoway Gazette in 1917 to his brother George Mckenzie Macdonald, also of 37 Keith Street. The relevant parts:
[...] His eldest brother, Alex Dan, was seriously wounded in action in France, and died in the field hospital on 25th April last. The only surviving brother, Thomas, is an officer in the mercantile marine. The sympathy of a wide circle of friends in Stornoway is extended to their widowed mother in the double loss which the war has inflicted on her.
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