Last address in Lewis: 50 Lower Garrabost,
Son of Murdo and Mary Mackay
Service unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMT Sanda
Service number: 3882A
Date of birth: 8 December 1891
Date of death: 25 September 1915 at the age of 24
Ship sunk by fire from shore battery at Blankenberge, Belgium
Interred: Eye / Aignish Cemetery, grave D. 1. 4.
Local memorial: Point (Garrabost)
The 1901 census shows Murdo (8) with his parents Murdo (54) and Mary (50) with his siblings John (12), Malcolm (10), Mary (27) and Annie (6) as well as a large number of visitors from the village of Aird Tong, north of Stornoway.
Murdo's brother Malcolm served with the Canadian Army and John served with the RNR. Both survived the war
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