Stenish / Steinis

Private ALEXANDER MACDONALD
Last known address in Lewis: 3 Stenish
Service unit: Y Guards TM Bty, Royal Field Artillery
Service number: 179588
Date of death: 13 May 1917
Died of fever in France
Interred: Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt, grave VI. F. 24.
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 4


Sergeant MALCOLM MACDONALD
Last known address in Lewis: 3 Stenish
Son of Angus Macdonald
Service unit: 49th Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Service number: 432945
Date of death: 22 September 1916 at the age of 29
Killed in action
Interred: St Sever Cemetery, grave B. 17. 36
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 4
Was killed while trying to rescue wounded comrade

Private JOHN MACARTHUR
Last known address in Lewis: 6 Stenish
Son of Anne MacArthur
Service unit: 7th Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: S/10847
Date of death: 6 December 1916 at the age of 25
Killed in action in France
Interred: Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, grave II. A. 1
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 4

Leading Boatman MALCOLM MACIVER
Last known address in Lewis: 7 Stenish
Also known at 12 Branahuie
Son of Kenneth and Henrietta MacLeod MacIver, of 12, Branahuie; husband of Annie MacIver
Service unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Jupiter
Service number: 225994
Date of death: 29 January 1916 at the age of 48
Died in Mediterranean
Interred: Port Said War Memorial Cemetery, grave J. 17
Village memorial: Branahuie & Melbost
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 4

Sergeant MALCOLM SMITH
Last known address in Lewis: 11 Stenish
Service unit: Canadian Royal Army Medical Corps, 1st Canadian Gen Hosp
Service number: 50837
Date of death: 19 May 1918 at the age of 25
Killed when the hospital at Etaples was being bombed by Germans
Interred: Etaples Military Cemetery, grave LXVI. D. 25
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 6


Private MALCOLM MACLEOD
Last known address in Lewis: 14 Stenish
Son of James Macleod
Service unit: C Coy, 6th Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: S/17739
Date of death: 23 March 1918 at the age of 20
Killed in action
Memorial: Arras Memorial, Bay 8
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 5
Stornoway Gazette tribute


Private THOMAS MACLEOD
Last known address in Lewis: 14 Stenish
Son of Isabella and James McLeod
Service unit: Royal Canadian Regiment
Service number: 477653
Date of death: 16 September 1919 at the age of 27
Died in hospital of gas poisoning
Interred: Hamilton Cemetery, Ontario, Canada, grave S. 116. 10
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 5


Saddler PHILIP MACLEOD
Last known address in Lewis: Golf House Stenish
Son of Roderick McLeod, of Sandwick Hill, North St., Sandwick
Service unit: 123rd Bty. 28th Bde. Royal Field Artillery
Service number: 54183
Date of death: 26 August 1914 at the age of 27
Killed in action
Interred: Troisville Communal Cemetery, Sp. Mem
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 5
Killed during retreat from Mons.
First Lewisman to fall in the War