Norman Smith, 7 Aird

Seaman NORMAN SMITH
Last address in Lewis: 7 Aird
Son of Norman and Mary Smith, of Stornoway
Service: Royal Naval Reserve (Patrol Service), HMT Brock
Service number: LT/X.7713C
Date of death: 19 August 1940 at the age of 33
Interred: Eye / Aignish Cemetery, J. 49

Alexander Macdonald, 7 Aird, Point

Able Seaman ALEXANDER MACDONALD
Last address in Lewis: 7 Aird
Son of Malcolm and Annie Macdonald.
Service: Merchant Navy, SS Stockport
Ship torpedoed by U-604 in mid-Atlantic, with the loss of all hands
Date of death: 23 February 1943 at the age of 31
Memorial: Tower Hill, panel 101

Norman Murray Macdonald, 7 Aird, Point

Second Officer NORMAN MURRAY MACDONALD
Last address in Lewis: 7 Aird
Service: Merchant Navy
Date of death: 11 March 1943 at the age of 21
Lost on SS Baron Kinnaird sunk by U-621 NE of Newfoundland.
Was youngest 2nd mate at age 19
Memorial: Tower Hill, panel 14
Local memorial: Point, Garrabost

John Malcolm Mackenzie, 5 Aird, Point

Able Seaman JOHN MALCOLM MACKENZIE
Last address in Lewis: 5 Aird
Son of Norman and Catherine Mackenzie.
Service: Merchant Navy
Date of death: 30 October 1940 at the age of 32
Lost on SS Rutland south of Rockall
Memorial: Tower Hill, panel 89
Local memorial: Point, Garrabost

Murdo Mackenzie, Aird Point

Seaman MURDO MACKENZIE
Last address in Lewis: Aird, Point
Son of Donald and Catherine Mackenzie, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Service: Royal Naval Reserve (Patrol Service), HMS Greenfly
Service number: LT/X8100C
Date of death: 2 November 1939 at the age of 28
Lost through drowning after a fall
Interred: Tynemouth (Preston) Cemetery, Sec. F. Uncons. Grave 11835.

Alexander John Maciver, 23 Aignish

Seaman ALEXANDER JOHN MACIVER
Last address in Lewis: 23 Aignish
Son of Donald and Catherine Maciver, of Knock, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Service: Royal Naval Reserve
Service number: P/X19909A
Date of death: 1 September 1940 at the age of 20
Lost when HMS Express struck a mine
Memorial: Portsmouth Naval, panel 44, column 1
Local memorial: Point, Garrabost

Stornoway Gazette, 13 September 1940
The Island of Lewis suffered one of the heaviest blows of the war last week, when seven young men lost their lives on HM destroyers "Esk" and "Express".

They were: Murdo Macleod, 5 Tolsta Chaolais, Norman Macleod, 14 Tolsta Chaolais, Alex John Maciver, 23 Aignish, Murdo Macdonald, 8 Sheshader, John Martin, 16 Lower Shader, Donald Macdonald, "Clyde", Shader and Malcolm Murray, 21 Swanibost.

All of them were young men, Alex John Maciver being barely 20, and DOnald Macdonald, the oldest of them, still in his thirties. The villages of Tolsta Chaolais and Shader suffered a double bereavement. The two Macdonalds were the only sons of widowed mothers. Alex John Maciver, 23 Aignish, is a son of Donald Maciver, who served in the last war. There is an older brother on service with the Navy. 

Kenneth Angus Crichton, 6 Aignish

Gunner KENNETH ANGUS CRICHTON
Last address in Lewis: 6 Aignish
Son of William and Henrietta Crichton; husband of Catherine Crichton, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Service: Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, also 65 (The Norfolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment
Service number: 1482832
Date of death: 2 February 1943 at the age of 32
Died in North Africa, of wounds sustained in January 1943
Interred: Benghazi War Cemetery, grave 3. E. 8.
Local memorial: Point, Garrabost

Stornoway Gazette, 19 March 1943
News has been received from the Middle East that Gunner Kenneth Angus Crichton, son of William Crichton, 6 Aignish, has died of wounds sustained during the January advance of the 8th Army. Turned down for service with the Ross Mountain Battery, because of a slight defect in one leg, Kenneth was still determined to get into the services. Finally he was accepted for home defence only, but in the crisis after Dunkirk was sent out to the Middle East, and went through the campaign of Wavell, Auchinleck and Alexander. In the month of January, when the hard-fought campaigns were about to earn their reward in the complete expulsion of the Axis forces from Italian North Africa, he was wounded, and his death occurred early in February. He leaves a wife and son at 33 Ranish, to whom, as to his other relatives, deep sympathy is extended.