Alexander James Macleod, Ardroil Farm

Private ALEXANDER JAMES MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: Ardroil Farm
Son of the late Donald Alexander Macleod and of Julia F. Macleod, of 22, Forest Rd. Edinburgh. Born at Glasgow.
Service unit: Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment
Service number: 33545
Date of death: 24 May 1918 at the age of 23
Died suddenly at Sunderland
Interred: Glasgow (Eastwood) Cemetery Spec. Memorial
Local memorial: Uig, Timsgarry; Nicolson Institute WW1, middle panel

Shellshocked in France in March 1918. Alternative Commemoration - buried in Glasgow (Sighthill) Cemetery.

His brother Malcolm B was a surgeon-lieutenant  in the Royal Navy.

Malcolm Macinnes, 2 Callanish

Lance Corporal MALCOLM MACINNES
Last address in Lewis: 2 Callanish,
Son of Norman and Christina MacInnes, of 2, Callanish, Stornoway, Lewis.
Service unit: Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own, 13th Yorkshires
Service number: 41870
Enlisted at Manchester; lived at Heaton Chapel.
Formerly 161737 RFA.
Date of death: 13 April 1918 at the age of 30
Killed in action in France
Memorial: Ploegsteert Memorial, Panel 4
Local memorial: East Loch Roag, Callanish

His brother  Angus served with the Cameron Highlanders, and was awarded the Military Medal in 1918; his brother John was in the Seaforth Highlanders. Both these survived the war.

Finlay Maciver, 54 Lower Barvas

Sergeant FINLAY MACIVER
Son of the late Kenneth and Eliza Maciver. B.Sc. (Aberdeen).
Last address in Lewis: 54 Lower Barvas (Barvas Cottage)
Service unit: 13th Yorkshire Regiment (formerly 199 Army Veterinary Corps)
Service number: 33890
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 22 March 1918 at the age of 24
Killed in action in France
Mentioned on family gravestone in Bosta Cemetery, Great Bernera
Memorial: Arras Memorial, Bay 5
Local memorial: Nicolson Institute WW1, left panel

His brother James served in the US Army; his brother John A.served in the Ross Mountain Battery.  These two survived the war.

Stornoway Gazette, 12 April 1918
It was with feelings of deep regret that the people of this district [Barvas] learned of the death in action of Finlay Maciver, son of the gamekeeper, Mr Maciver. After a distinguished career at Aberdeen University, Finlay took his degree in agriculture in 1915 and soon afterwards enlisted voluntarily in the Veterinary Corps, where he attained the rank of sergeant. Some time ago, a number of members of that regiment were transferred to Infantry Regiments and he was attached to the 13th Yorkshires. On 21st March, his regiment went into the trenches and on the 22nd a shell, which landed on the fire bay, killed him and five others of his company.
During the short periods (during holidays which he had spent at Barvas) Finlay had endeared himself to all classes of the community and much sympathy is felt for the family in their sore bereavement.

Also mentioned in tribute to Nicolson Institute Old Boys

John A Macrae, 26 Lewis Street, Stornoway

Trooper JOHN A MACRAE
Last address in Lewis: 26 Lewis Street, Stornoway
Son of James and Catherine MacRae, of Viewfield, Lewis St., Stornoway. Born at Stornoway.
Service unit: 13th Yorkshire Regiment
Service number: 235609, formerly 4351 Scottish Horse
Date of death: 23 November 1917 at the age of 39
Died of wounds in Field Hospital
Interred: Hermies British Cemetery, grave G. 9
Mentioned on family gravestone in Sandwick Cemetery, Lewis
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial; Nicolson WW1 memorial, right panel

Went to Gallipoli with Scottish Horse, was invalided home due to dysentery. Upon being passed for service, he went to France attached to Yorkshire Regt

John appears as a 3-year old with his parents at 14½ Scotland Street, Stornoway in the 1881 census. A decade later, the family resides at 36 Lewis Street. The children are named as Jeanie (17), Annie (15), Janet H (11) and Willie E (9) in 1891. Father James is a builder. Willie E. served as an air mechanic with the Royal Air Force in the First World War.

The Glasgow Herald, Friday, 14th December, 1917.
"Deaths on Service.
MACRAE.- Killed in action, Trooper John A. Macrae, Yeomanry (attached the Yorkshire Regiment), late of Anglo-South American Bank, Antofagasta, Chili (sic), elder and dearly beloved son of James Macrae, builder and contractor, Stornoway."

The Berwickshire News, Tuesday, 18th December, 1917.
"FALL OF A WELL KNOWN DUNS SOLDIER
We regret to intimate that Trooper John A Macrae, Yeomanry (attached to Yorkshire Regiment), elder son of Mr Jas. Macrae, builder and contractor, Stornoway, has been killed in action. This gallant soldier, who held an appointment in the Anglo-South American Bank, Antofagasta, Chili (sic), and who came over to serve his country in the early stages of the war, was a brother-in-law of Mr Robert Cameron, formerly accountant, in (the) British Linen Bank, Duns, and presently agent of their branch in Stornoway." 

Archibald Craig, 61 Bayhead, Stornoway

Private ARCHIBALD CRAIG
Last address in Lewis: 61 Bayhead Street, Stornoway
Son of Francis William Craig, of Bayhead House, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Service unit: 16th West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Service number: 16/1734
Date of death: 3 May 1917 at the age of 19
Killed in action
Memorial: Arras Memorial, Bay 4
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial; Nicolson WW1 memorial, left panel

Was a trumpeter in the Stornoway Section RMB and mobilised in August 1914 when only 16 years of age. Discharged on medical grounds, he was still determined to serve and after several unsuccessful attempts to pass the medical test, he was accepted for the West Yorks in August 1916. On the way to Egypt he had to go into hospital at Cyprus, but afterwards rejoined his regiment in France, where he was killed.

Archibald joined the Territorials on 14 March 1912, at the age of 15.
At the time, he was 5 ft 2 ins tall.
He is quoted as embodied in August 1914, but discharged in December that year.
Discharge proceedings show Archibald to have grown more than 4 inches since March 1912,
Complexion: Pale
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Religion: Presbyterian
Occupation: Clerk

He was discharged as unlikely to become an efficient soldier.
Archibald's service record with the West Yorkshires was not readily available.

The 1901 census shows him aged 3, making his year of birth about 1898. He lives at Bayhead House, at the time the youngest sibling of seven children of Frances William Craig (43), a sergeant-major with the Royal Artillery, and Isabella Craig (43). Their children are Margaret (18), Jane (17), William Craig (14), Janet (12), John (9), Isabella (7) and Archibald (3).