Sergeant NEIL MACIVER
Last address in Lewis: 40 Breasclete,
Son of Neil MacIver, of 40, Breasclete, Stornoway, Lewis.
Service unit: 2nd Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: 3/6713
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 5 May 1915 at the age of 22
Died of gas poisoning
Interred: Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, grave Div. 19. C. 5.
Local memorial: East Loch Roag, Callanish
His brother Malcolm was lost in the Iolaire in 1919, having served in the RNR; his brother John too was in the RNR, but survived.
Neil appears in the 1901 census at 40A Breasclete, aged 10, the son of Neil (55) and Christy (52) and brother of Malcolm (17), Mary (15) and John (13).
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