Murdo Maciver, 14B Breasclete

Serjeant MURDO MACIVER
Last address in Lewis: 14B Breasclete,
Son of Donald and Annie Maciver, of 14, Breasclete, Stornoway.
Service unit: C company, 8th Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: 7106
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 16 March 1917 at the age of 23
Killed in action
Interred: Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, grave III. G. 16
Local memorial: East Loch Roag, Callanish

Murdo appears in the 1901 census of 14B Breasclete, aged 7, the son of Donald (37) and Annie (40) and brother of Jessie Ann (12), Donald (9) and Katie Mary (1). 

His brother Donald served in the RNR to survive the war. 

Stornoway Gazette
Mr Donald Maciver, 14 Breasclet, has been informed that his son, Sergt. Murdo Maciver, was killed in action in the recent great push in France. He was 23 years of age, and being a militiaman at the opening of the war, he had at once to participate, being immediately drafted to the front.