Gunner MURDO MACKENZIE
Last address in Lewis: 51 Lower Garrabost,
Son of Kenneth and Annie Mackenzie, of 51, Garrabost, Stornoway.
Service unit: Royal Garrison Artillery, 4th Highland Battery
Service number: 4379
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 5 June 1915 at the age of 19
Died of wounds sustained the previous day
Interred: Pink Farm Cemetery, Helles Spec. Mem. 60
Local memorial: Point (Garrabost); Nicolson Institute WW1, middle panel
The 1901 census shows Murdo (5) at home with his parents Kenneth and Annie (both aged 51) as well as his siblings Mary (20), John (14), John (12) and Kenneth (10).
His brother Kenneth was lost in action in August 1918.
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