Last address in Lewis: 8 Lower Garrabost,
Son of Murdo and Christina McSween, of Garrabost, Stornoway.
Service unit: 2nd Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: 3/7442
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 15 July 1916 at the age of 19
Killed in action
Interred: Doullens Communal Cemetery extension, no 1, grave III. D. 5
Mentioned on family gravestone in Eye Cemetery.
Local memorial: Point (Garrabost)
The war diary for his regiment for the day of his death reads as follows:
A large draft of 170 joined us on the 15th. A good looking lot but a mixture of 4th Seaforths, 4th and 6th Gordons. On the nights of the 15th and 16th, the Battalion was employed in carrying up gas cylinders to the trenches in front of AUCHONVILLERS. The weather was bad.
His brother John served as a Petty Officer in the Royal Navy, and survived the war.
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