Lance Corporal WILLIAM FRASER
Last address in Lewis: 7 Bennadrove Road, Stornoway
Son of Andrew and Mary Fraser, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Service: 5th Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 2939689
Date of death: 5 October 1944 at the age of 22
Presumed killed in Holland.
Fought from El Alamein to Tunis, then Sicily. Formally declared dead in October 1945.
Interred: Uden War Cemetery (Holland), grave 6. C. 13.
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John Roderick Innis, Newton Street, Stornoway
Corporal JOHN RODERICK INNIS
Last address in Lewis: 1 Newton Street, Stornoway
Son of William Henry and Flora Innis, of Stornoway.
Service: 1st (Liverpool Scottish) Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 2932102
Date of death: 2 January 1942 at the age of 23
Died in a road accident
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery, Section O, grave 1419
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
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Last address in Lewis: 1 Newton Street, Stornoway
Son of William Henry and Flora Innis, of Stornoway.
Service: 1st (Liverpool Scottish) Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 2932102
Date of death: 2 January 1942 at the age of 23
Died in a road accident
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery, Section O, grave 1419
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
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Duncan Alexander Macaulay, Sandwick
Corporal DUNCAN ALEX MACAULAY
Last address in Lewis: 7 East Street, Sandwick
Service: 7th Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 3249793
Date of death: 19 January 1945 at the age of 27
Killed in action near Sittard, Holland.
Took out machinegun post alone, but was shot by sniper
Mentioned on family gravestones in the cemeteries at Eye and Sandwick, Lewis
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
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His brother Murdo was drowned at St Malo later in 1945.
Gravestone in Eye Cemetery
Gravestone in Sandwick Cemetery
Last address in Lewis: 7 East Street, Sandwick
Service: 7th Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 3249793
Date of death: 19 January 1945 at the age of 27
Killed in action near Sittard, Holland.
Took out machinegun post alone, but was shot by sniper
Mentioned on family gravestones in the cemeteries at Eye and Sandwick, Lewis
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
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His brother Murdo was drowned at St Malo later in 1945.
Gravestone in Eye Cemetery
Gravestone in Sandwick Cemetery
John Buchanan, Newmarket
Private JOHN BUCHANAN
Sporty
Last address in Lewis: 89 Newmarket
Service unit: 5th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 2939667
Date of death: 24 October 1942 at the age of 20
Killed in action at El Alamein
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
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Sporty
Last address in Lewis: 89 Newmarket
Service unit: 5th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 2939667
Date of death: 24 October 1942 at the age of 20
Killed in action at El Alamein
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
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Donald Munro, Benside
Serjeant DONALD MUNRO
Last address in Lewis: 15 Benside
Service: 5th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 2934175
Date of death: 25 March 1945 at the age of 25
Interred: Reichswald Forest Cemetery, grave 60. F. 13
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Last address in Lewis: 15 Benside
Service: 5th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 2934175
Date of death: 25 March 1945 at the age of 25
Interred: Reichswald Forest Cemetery, grave 60. F. 13
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