Murdo Macaulay, Schoolpark, Knock, Point

Leading Seaman MURDO MACAULAY

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. 

Neil Donald Macaulay, Nicolson Road, Stornoway

Leading Bombardier NEIL DONALD MACAULAY
Last address in Lewis: 68 Nicolson Road, Stornoway
Son of Angus and Mary MacAulay, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Service: Ross Mountain Battery, 203 Bty. 51 Anti-Tank Regt.
Service number: 1464639
Date of death: 10 June 1940 at the age of 22
Killed in action at St Valery
Interred: Veulettes-sur-Mer churchyard, grave 16
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial

Murdo Macaulay, Sandwick

MURDO MACAULAY
Last address in Lewis: 23 East Street, Sandwick
Service: Merchant Navy
Date of death: 1945
Drowned at St Malo
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His brother Duncan Alexander was lost in action in Holland in January 1945.

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

Alexander Neil Macaulay, Guershader

Second Engineer ALEXANDER NEIL MACAULAY
Last address in Lewis: 6 Guershader
Son of George and Margaret Macaulay, of Laxdale, Isle of Lewis.
Service unit: Merchant Navy
Date of death: 7 October 1942 at the age of 35
Lost on SS Manon sunk by Japanese sub I-162.
Survived sinking of SS Chilka 11/3/42
Memorial: Tower Hill, panel 68
Mentioned on family gravestone in Sandwick Cemetery, Lewis
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
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