Lance Corporal DONALD MACARTHUR
Last address in Lewis: 29 Breasclete,
Son of Malcolm and Mary Macarthur
Service unit: 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, also listed as Labour Corps
Service number: 3/7214
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 1 July 1916 at the age of 19
Died of wounds
Interred: Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps, grave I. H. 28.
Local memorial: East Loch Roag, Callanish
Battalion war diary entry for 1 July 1916
Donald appears in the 1901 census, aged 4, at 29 Breasclete. He is the son of Malcolm (51) and Mary (43), and brother of John (16), Malcolm (14), Angus (10), Catherine (8) and Maggie (6).
His brothers Angus, Neil and John served in the RNR and survived the war. Neil, for reference, appears in the 1881 census, aged 8.
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