The Scottish War Graves Project

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Stoker 1st Class ALEXANDER KERSLAKE WADE
Last address: 7 Magdala Road, Highgate, London
Son of Harry and Rosina Wade, of above address
Regiment or division: Royal Navy, HMS Caribbean
Service number: K/13090
Date of death: 26 September 1915 at the age of 22
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery
Memorial reference: O. 1910. 1317

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Trimmer / Cook WILLIAM SCAMBLER
Regiment or division: Royal Naval Reserve, HMT Thomas Stratten
Service number: 712/TC
Date of death: 20 October 1917
Lost in mining of ship off the Butt of Lewis
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery
Memorial reference: O. 1910. 1321

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Able Seaman ALBERT GEORGE KNIGHT
Last address: 56 Chasefield Road, Tooting, London
Husband of Phoebe R. Moyce (formerly Knight) of above address
Regiment or division: Royal Navy, HMS Racoon
Service number: 7597/SS(CH)
Date of death: 9 January 1918 at the age of 23
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery
Memorial reference: O. 1910. 1322

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Deck Hand A MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 12 Benside
Regiment or division: Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Pembroke
Service number: 19984/DA
Date of death: 27 March 1920
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery, North-West Old Ground grave 357
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial

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Private KENNETH JOHN MACLEAN
Last address in Lewis: 33 Church Street, Stornoway
Son of John and Rachel Maclean
Service unit: Gordon Highlanders, Depot
Service number: 3/6127
Date of death: 18 March 1919 at the age of 25
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery, northeast Old Ground, grave 427
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial; Nicolson WW1 memorial, middle panel

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Engineman AULAY MACKENZIE
Last address in Lewis: 13 Newton Street
Son of the late William MacKenzie, Master Mariner; husband of Margaret McKenzie, brother of Murdo of 13 Newton Street, Stornoway
Service unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMD Northern Scot
Service number: 2325/ES
Date of death: 16 November 1916 at the age of 42
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery North-West Old Ground 389

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Seaman HUGH BROWN MURRAY
Last address in Lewis: Seaforth House, 23 Scotland Street, Stornoway
Son of Alan and Isabella Brown Murray, of Stornoway.
Regiment or division: Royal Naval Reserve, HMT Richard Bennett
Service number: 983/TS
Date of death: 1 December 1917 at the age of 52
Died in Haslar Hospital
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery, Northwest Old Ground grave 298
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial

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Lance-Corporal GEORGE MURRAY MUNRO
Last known address in Lewis: 50 Kenneth Street, Stornoway
Son of Donald and Christina MacLeod Munro, of 56, Kenneth St., Stornoway.
Service unit: 2nd Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: 3/7259
Date of death: 16 April 1917 at the age of 18
Died in hospital in Cromarty
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery, Old Ground, Northwest, grave 317
Village memorial: Nicolson Institute WW1, right panel
Lewis War Memorial: Parish of Stornoway, Burgh & Central division, panel 5

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Seaman J MACDONALD
No further personal details known
Regiment or division: Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Research
Service number: 2687/A
Date of death: 28 September 1917
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery
Memorial reference: South-West Old Ground 326

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Able Seaman DONALD MACIVER
Last address in Lewis: 2 Newvalley
Son of Malcolm and Catherine MacIver, of Stornoway.
Service: Royal Navy
Service number: C/JX259465
Date of death: 2 October 1942 at the age of 26
Lost when HMS Curacao broke in two after colliding with Queen Mary
Interred: Old Sandwick Cemetery, grave 919
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial

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Ordinary Seaman JAMES HERBERT OTWAY
Son of Frederick Robert and Kathleen Otway; nephew of Celia A. Smith, of Sedgeford, Norfolk.
Regiment or service: Merchant Navy, SS Rotorua
Date of death: 11 December 1940 at the age of 18
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery, Sec. M. Grave 2969.

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Seaman HERBERT CHARLES HILL
Regiment or service: Mercantile Marine, SS Eaglescliffe Hall
Date of death: 18 January 1941 at the age of 19
Was found dead in Stornoway Harbour.
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery

HILL is in the CWGC database but in a section you cannot see online.

His grave is NOT a war grave. It is classified as a Non-World War Grave in CWGC Care. This means that he did not meet the conditions applying to the Merchant Navy for war grave status qualification. As a member of one of the Recognised Civilian Organisations, Merchant Navy men only qualified if they died on duty and of a war cause (torpedoing, mining, etc). HILL did not and, therefore, does not have War Grave status. When his headstone is replaced , he will receive a clipped corner Non-World War style stone.

Those in this non-war grave category are listed by CWGC but the list is not available online.

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Air Fitter BRIAN RALPH O'SHEA
Son of Cyril Bernard and Winifred May O'Shea, of Leicester.
Regiment or service: Royal Navy, HMS Lanka
Service number: FX 75495
Date of death: 30 March 1941 at the age of 18
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery, Sec. M. Grave 2981.

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Assistant Steward RONALD WILLIAM GEORGE HOWLETT
Regiment or service: Merchant Navy, MV Staffordshire
Date of death: 28 March 1941 at the age of 35
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery, Sec. M. Grave 2972.

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Stoker 1st class JACK PETTIGREW
Son of Archibald Pettigrew, and of Amelia Pettigrew, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Regiment or service: Royal Canadian Navy Reserve, H.M.C.S. Trillium
Service number: A/2383
Date of death: 12 April 1941 at the age of 33
Interred: Sandwick Cemetery, Sec. M. Grave 2973.