Corporal ANGUS MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 13 Benside,
Son of Norman and Mary McLeod, of 13, Benside, Stornoway.
Service unit: A Coy. 1st Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: 10402
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 22 April 1916 at the age of 27
Killed in action in Mesopotamia
Memorial: Basra Memorial, Iraq, Panel 37 and 64
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
We find Angus in the 1891 census at croft 13 with his parents Norman (46) and Mary (38) as well as his siblings Murdina (17), Jean (15), William (12), Mary (10), Murdo (7) and Catherine (5).
His brother Murdo served in the RNR; his brother William was in the Canadian Army - these two survived the war. His brother Norman was killed in France in 1914.
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