Pentland Road - 2

As I was checking the CWGC website for casualty listings which included to word "stornoway", I came across at least three names of men who had connections to the town, or to the island. The search also yielded results that had no connections to the Isle of Lewis; four lived on Stornoway Road in Southend-on-Sea in Essex; one came from Stornoway in Saskatchewan, Canada. Captain REGINALD FOWLER GREENHILL Only son of Mrs. and the late Dr. S. F. Greenhill, of 9, Bank St., Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. Last address in Lewis: 9 Bank Street, Stornoway Service unit: 15th Lancashire Fusiliers Date of death: 1 January 1918 at the age of 22 Interred: Wimereux Communal Cemetery, grave IV. I. 3 Private JOHN FORREST Last address in Lewis: Stornoway Son of Mr. A. M. Forrest, of Beach House, South Beach St., Stornoway. Service unit: 1st Scots Guards Service number: 9892 Born at Montrose Enlisted at Paisley Date of death: 28 September 1915 Died of wounds Interred: Noeux-les-Mines...

A couple of years ago, I managed to have private Norman Morrison , late of South Dell, and private Finlay Maclean , late of Sandwick, "in from the cold". That means that they were awarded Commonwealth War Dead status. In recent months, I have focused on compiling a listing of Great War casualties from the Southern Isles. This comprises the islands of Harris, Berneray, North Uist, Grimsay, Benbecula, South Uist, Eriskay, Barra and Vatersay. One of the casualties, Archibald Macphee, was found to be a potential candidate for Commonwealth War Dead status as well. The proces is lengthy, and I'll update as developments occur. Private ARCHIBALD MACPHEE Last known address in South Uist: Garryhillie Son of John and Mary Macphee Service unit: 3rd Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Service number: 3/5553 Date of death: 10 February 1917 at the age of 23 Died at home of illness Local memorial: South Uist Pte Macphee died of TB, which he contracted whilst on service. He w...

Late last year, I completed the bulk of the work on Lewismen lost in the Great War . Using the tag-function of the Blogger platform, I was able to gather the following statistics. NAMES Most common first names: Donald: 242 John: 262 Murdo: 125 Angus: 100 Malcolm: 94 Most common second names: Macleod: 265 Macdonald: 157 Mackenzie: 87 Morrison: 71 Maciver: 66 VILLAGES (number of casualties per village) Point Aignish: 16 Aird: Point(13 Bayble: 56 Broker: 4 Flesherin: 7 Garrabost: 28 Knock: Point: 18 Portnaguran: 13 Portvoller: 11 Sheshader: 19 Shulishader: 9 Swordale: 12 Stornoway Benside: 14 Branahuie: 3 Coulregrein: 6 Guershader: 2 Holm: 5 Laxdale: 3 Melbost: 4 Newvalley: 8 Sandwick: 15 Stenish: 7 Stornoway: 145 Back & Tolsta Aird Tong: 14 Back: 30 Coll: 26 Gress: 1 North Tolsta: 52 Tong: 9 Vatisker: 13 Ness Adabrock: 7 Aird Dell: 3 Cross: 8 Eorodale: 9 Eoropie: 9 Fivepenny: 13 Habost: 22 Knockaird: 7 Lionel: 17 North D...