Seaman JOHN MACDONALD
Last address in Lewis: 34 South Shawbost
Brother of Donald McDonald, of 16, Clyde St., Dumbarton. Native of Shawbost, Stornoway.
Service unit: Merchant Marine, HMS Partridge
Service number: 3478B
Date of birth: 1 April 1885
Date of death: 14 February 1915 at the age of 31
Drowned when cutter was upset by HMS Sutlej
Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 14,
John appears in the 1901 census at 39 South Shawbost, aged 13, the son of Neil (57) and Mary (60) and brother of Malcolm (18).
It would appear that his brother Malcolm drowned in 1915, serving in the RNR.
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