Private EVANDER MACKENZIE
Last address in Lewis: 5 Upper Garrabost,
Service unit: 2nd Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: 3/7455
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 1 July 1916 at the age of 19
Killed in action on the Somme
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 15C
Local memorial: Point (Garrabost)
Evander is shown in the 1901 census at 5 Garrabost with his parents Evander and Mary (both aged 40) as well as his siblings Chirstina (15), Roderick (13), Mary (11), Kenneth (9), John (6), and Evander (4).
His brother John was killed in action in 1916.
His brothers John and Roderick served in the RNR, but survived the war.
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