Lower Sandwick


Sergeant WILLIAM JOHN MACLEOD
Last known address in Lewis: 3 Lower Sandwick
Son of William and Isabella MacLeod
Service unit: 1st Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: S/15208
Date of death: 26 August 1918 at the age of 31
Killed in action in Baku
Memorial: Baku Memorial,
Village memorial: Nicolson Institute WW1, middle panel
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 5
Stornoway Gazette tribute

Private KENNETH MACKENZIE
Last known address in Lewis: 6 Lower Sandwick
Service unit: Seaforth Highlanders
Date of death: (not known)
Killed in action
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 4
Stornoway Gazette tribute

Private ALEXANDER MACAULAY
Last known address in Lewis: 10 Lower Sandwick
Son of John MacAulay
Service unit: 2nd Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Service number: 442728
Date of death: 9 September 1916 at the age of 37
Killed in action in France
Memorial: Vimy Memorial
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 4


Seaman JOHN MACASKILL
Last known address in Lewis: 12 Lower Sandwick
Son of Kenneth and Mary Macaskill
Service unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMT Thomas Booth
Service number: 9635/A
Date of death: 1 January 1919 at the age of 24
Drowned in sinking of HMY Iolaire
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery, Old Ground, Northwest, grave 234
Village memorial: Nicolson Institute WW1, left panel
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 4

Seaman DONALD MACDONALD
Last known address in Lewis: 21 Lower Sandwick
Son of Alexander and Catherine Macdonald
Service unit: Royal Naval Reserve
Date of death: 10 November 1916 at the age of 50
Died of a strain, taken on active service
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 4


Lance-Corporal DONALD MACKENZIE
Last known address in Lewis: 27 Lower Sandwick
Son of Marion A. Miller (formerly McKenzie), of 2, Gilcomston Terrace, Aberdeen.
Service unit: 3rd Gordon Highlanders
Service number: 315981
Date of death: 21 July 1915 at the age of 20
Died in hospital in Aberdeen of pulmonary tuberculosis
Interred: Aberdeen (Allenvale) Cemetery, grave K. 443
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 3
Referred to as Donald Angus in the Roll of Honour

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