Last address in Lewis: 2 Schoolpark, Knock, Point
Service: Royal Naval Reserve
Date of death: 10 August 1940
Lost in action in North Sea
Local memorial: Point, Garrabost
Stornoway Gazette, 11 October 1940
Leading seaman Murdo Macaulay, RNR, 2 Schoolpark, Knock, has been missing since one of HM ships was lost in July. the only son of Donald Macaulay, Schoolpark, Murdo spent the early years of his working life as a fisherman on board the "Paradigm". He was a popular youth and is much missed in the district. Sympathy is felt for his father and four sisters.
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