Private NEIL MACLEAN
Last address in Lewis: 8B Breasclete,
Son of Annie Maclean, of 8, Breasclete, Stornoway, and the late Murdo Maclean.
Service unit: 2nd Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: 3/6904
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 9 May 1915 at the age of 23
Killed in action at Neuve Chapelle
Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 38
Local memorial: East Loch Roag, Callanish
Neil appears in the 1901 census of 8 Breasclete, aged 9, the son of Murdo (44) and Annie (42) and brother of John (17), Mary (15), Malcolm (13), Kenneth (11) and Maggie (5).
His brothers John and Malcolm served in the RNR, and Malcolm was discharged. Both survived the war.
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