Lance Corporal JOHN MACIVER
Last address in Lewis: 31A Breasclete,
Son of John Maciver, of 31, Breasclete, Stornoway.
Service unit: 1st Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: 3/7098
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 22 April 1916 at the age of 21
Killed in action in Mesopotamia
Memorial: Basra Memorial, Iraq, Panel 37 and 64
Local memorial: East Loch Roag, Callanish
John appears in the 1901 census, aged 6, at 31A Breasclete, the youngest son of John (48) and Mary (46), and brother of Flora (19), Donald (15), Marion (12) and Maggie (9).
His brother Donald also served in the Seaforth Highlanders, but was discharged due to wounds in 1917.
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