Sergeant WILLIAM MATHESON MACIVER
Last address in Lewis: Green Park Upper Bayble,
Service unit: 2nd Rhodesian Infantry
Service number: RR/1153
Date of death: 22 March 1918 at the age of 36
Killed in action in France
Memorial: Pozieres Memorial, Panel 95 - 98
Local memorial: Point (Garrabost)
The 1891 census records William Matheson as a 9-year old, living living at Upper Bayble with his parents Malcolm (61) and Rose (46) as well as his siblings Murdo Nicolson (12), Kenneth (10), George (3), William (5 months), Rose Augusta (20), Jessie Gilmour (17), Mary Jane (13), Margaret (7) and Eliza (5). In total, William is known to have had at least 13 siblings.
His brother Kenneth Mackenzie Maciver was killed in 1918 in an accident in Nyassaland.
His brother James Matheson served as a major in East Africa;
His brother John Thomson was a sergeant during the war.
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