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Sheshader / Seisiadar

Leading Aircraftsman NORMAN MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 3 Sheshader
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of death: at the age of 20
Died in hospital in England
Local memorial: Point, Garrabost

Bosun MURDO CAMPBELL
Last address in Lewis: 5 Sheshader
Service: Merchant Navy
Date of death: 8 May 1941 at the age of 33
Saved from ship SS Empire Light by German raider Pinguin, lost when that was sunk by HMS Cornwall
Mentioned on family gravestone in Eye Cemetery, Lewis
Local memorial: Point, Garrabost

Able Seaman DONALD MACKENZIE
Last address in Lewis: 15 Sheshader
Service: Royal Naval Reserve
Lost at sea
Local memorial: Point, Garrabost

Able Seaman NORMAN MALCOLM MONTGOMERY
Last address in Lewis: 17 Sheshader
Service: Merchant Navy
Date of death: 8 May 1941 at the age of 22
Saved from ship SS Empire Light by German raider Pinguin, lost when that was sunk by HMS Cornwall
Memorial: Tower Hill, panel 43
Mentioned on family gravestone in Eye Cemetery, Lewis
Local memorial: Point, Garrabost

Seaman JOHN MACKENZIE
Last address in Lewis: 26 Sheshader
Service: Royal Naval Reserve
Lost at sea
Local memorial: Point, Garrabost

Seaman HECTOR MACKAY
Last address in Lewis: 27 Sheshader
Son of John and Matilda Mackay; husband of Henrietta Mackay, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Service: Royal Naval Reserve
Date of death: 21 January 1940 at the age of 34
Lost in mining of HMS Exmouth off Wick
Memorial: Portsmouth Naval, panel 44, column 1
Local memorial: Point, Garrabost
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Associated with 23 Sheshader
Leading Aircraftman NORMAN RICHARD McLEOD
Son of John McLeod and of Berdie McLeod (nee McLaren); nephew of Norman  Macaulay, of Portnaguran, Stornoway.
Service unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Service number: R/68643
Date of death: 29 March 1942 at the age of 21
Interred: Eye / Aignish Cemetery, Sec. C. Grave 7.
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