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Showing posts with label sandwick. Show all posts

Kenneth Morrison, Sandwick

A/SUP KENNETH MORRISON
Last address in Lewis: Sandwick
Service: Merchant Navy
Date of death: 22 February 1944
Died of natural causes

Roderick Mackinnon, Sandwick

Able Seaman RODERICK MACKINNON
Last address in Lewis: 15 East Street, Sandwick
Service: Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Penelope
Service number: P/JX276358
Date of death: 18 February 1944 at the age of 30
Lost on ship sunk by U-410
Memorial: Portsmouth Naval, panel 82, column 3
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
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James Douglas Morrison, Sandwick

Pilot Officer JAMES DOUGLAS MORRISON
Last address in Lewis: 13 East Street, Sandwick
Service: 37 Sqdn Royal Air Force
Service number: 41096
Date of death: 1 May 1940 at the age of 23
Killed in action in a Wellington over Germany
Interred: Runnymede Memorial, panel 9

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

Allan Morrison, Sandwick

Carpenter ALLAN MORRISON
Last address in Lewis: 31 North Street, Sandwick
Service: Merchant Navy
Date of death: 6 November 1939 at the age of 51
Killed by bus shortly after arriving from Montreal

Malcolm Mackenzie, Sandwick

Fourth Engineer Officer MALCOLM MACKENZIE
Last address in Lewis: 15 North Street, Sandwick
Son of Malcolm Mackenzie, and of Jessie Ann Mackenzie, of Possilpark, Glasgow.
Service unit: Merchant Navy, SS Radhurst
Date of death: 21 February 1943 at the age of 24
Lost on ship sunk by U-525
Memorial: Tower Hill, panel 86
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Donald Chapman, Sandwick

Second Officer DONALD CHAPMAN
Danny
Last address in Lewis: 15 North Street, Sandwick
Husband of Annie Lorraine Chapman, of Plymouth.
Service unit: Merchant Navy, SS Sauternes
Date of death: 7 December 1941 at the age of 52
Lost in gale off Faeroes
Memorial: Tower Hill, panel 93
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Iain O'Brien Macgregor, Sandwick

Lieutenant Colonel IAIN O'BRIEN MACGREGOR
Last address in Lewis: 13 North Street, Sandwick
Son of Colonel John MacGregor, Indian Army, and Mabel MacGregor;
Husband of Diana Evelyn MacGregor, of Camberley, Surrey.
Service unit: Royal Artillery, 154 (The Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regt.
Service number: 18220
Date of death: 16 June 1944 at the age of 45
Died of wounds at Monte Cassino. Was a doctor
Interred: Cassino War Cemetery, grave XVIII. D. 10

Angus Smith, Sandwick

ANGUS SMITH
Angus the Laundry
Last address in Lewis: 9 North Street, Sandwick
Service unit: Fleet Air Arm, HMS Hermes
Service number: 10249B
Date of death: 9 April 1942
Lost on ship in Indian Ocean