Newmarket

Leading Seaman MURDO MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 32 Newmarket
Originally from 48 Cross
Service: Royal Navy Patrol Service, HMT William Stephen
Date of death: 25 September 1943 at the age of 28
Lost when ship was sunk by E-boats off Cromer.

Private ALEXANDER GRAHAM
Alex Six
Last address in Lewis: 34 Newmarket
Son of Angus and Christina Graham, of Laxdale, Isle of Lewis.
Service: 6th Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: 2825810
Date of death: between 5 and 7 May 1942 at the age of 22
Killed in action at Madagascar
Interred: Diego Suarez War Cemetery, Madagascar, grave 2. K. 1
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
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Flying Officer MALCOLM JOHN REID
Last address in Lewis: 40 Newmarket
Son of Norman and Bella Reid, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force, 83 (RAF) Squadron
Service number: J/22672
Date of death: 20 February 1944 at the age of 25
Lost in raid on Leipzig, in which 50 out of 823 aircraft were lost
Interred: Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, grave 5. Z. 8

Sapper MALCOLM SMITH
Last address in Lewis: 47 Newmarket
Service: 287 Field Coy Royal Engineers
Service number: 1909687
Date of death: 23 February 1942 at the age of 24
Died of wounds
Memorial: Singapore Civil Hospital Grave Memorial, column 2
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
Was shot in his hospital bed in Singapore by Japanese troops.
Lt Gen Yamashita was executed for this warcrime (perpetrated on many in the hospital) in 1946.

Able Seaman KENNETH MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 52 Newmarket
Service: Merchant Navy
Date of death: 24 June 1943 at the age of 68
Died in Seaman's Hospital Cardiff. Had served in WW1

Private JOHN BUCHANAN
Sporty
Last address in Lewis: 89 Newmarket
Service: 5th Cameron Highlanders
Service number: 2939667
Date of death: 24 October 1942 at the age of 20
Killed in action at El Alamein
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
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Corporal RODERICK BUCHANAN
Last address in Lewis: 89 Newmarket
Son of Donald and Catherine Buchanan, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Service: 2nd Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
Service number: 14205306
Date of death: 10 September 1944 at the age of 21
Killed in action beside his gun in a square in Ghent
Interred: Gent City cemetery, grave 18. C. 10.
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
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