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Hugh · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: Isle of Eigg Memorial

Courtesy of my colleague Ken Dalziel.

Hugh

Hugh · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject:

Courtesy of Ken Dalzeil

Hugh

Hugh · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject:

Courtesy of Ken Dalzeil

Hugh

Hugh · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject:

The above is the recently erected memorial on the Isle of Eigg. The plaque has the following inscription:

MAR CHUIMHNEACHAN AIR EILEANAICH EIGE,
A’THUIT AGUS A’SHEIBHEIS ANNS A CHEUD CHOGADH MHOR.
AGUS ANNS AN DARA COGADH.

IN MEMORY OF THOSE ISLANDERS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING
THE TWO WORLD WARS AND IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO SERVED.

1914 – 1918
Angus MacLellan, Pte, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, Killed in Action
Archibald MacLellan, His Majesty’s Transport, Killed in Action
Donald MacLellan, Sgt, Machine Gun Corps, Military Medal, Killed in Action.
John MacLellan, Pte, Gordon Highlanders,
Neil MacLellan, Pte, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders

Neil Campbell, AB, Merchant Navy
Dougald MacDonald, Capt, Merchant Navy
Angus MacKinnon, Trooper, Royal Horse Artillery
Hugh MacKinnon, Pte, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
Donald MacLeod, MM, Pte, Queens’s Own Cameron Highlanders
Ronald MacLeod, Guardsman, Scots Guard

1939 – 1945
Duncan Campbell, AB, Merchant Navy, Lost at Sea
Duncan MacIntyre, Craftsman, REME
Donald Lachlan MacKinnon, Pte, Bedfs-Herts, Killed in Action

Catherin Campbell, ATS
Catriona Campbell, ATS
Donald Archie Campbell, AB, Merchant Navy
Donald Campbell, AB, Royal Marines
Duncan Campbell, AB, Merchant Navy
Isobel Campbell, WAAFS
John Alec Campbell, AB, Merchant Navy, POW
John Campbell, AB, Merchant Navy
Lachlan Campbell, AB, Merchant Navy, POW
Mary Campbell, Capt, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps
Neil Campbell, AB, Merchant Navy
Roddy Campbell, AB, Royal Navy
Archibald MacDonald, AB, Merchant Navy
Donald MacDonald, Pte, Royal Scots Fusilier
John Angus MacDonald, Military Police
Roddy MacDonald, AB, Merchant Navy
Angie MacLean, ATS
Ann MacLean, ATS
Dr Hector MacLean, MC, Medical Officer, 1st & 4th County of London Yeomanry
Rachel MacLean, ATS
Ian MacLeod, AB, Merchant Navy
Lachlan MacKinnon, AB, Merchant Navy
Morag MacKinnon, Capt, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps
Roddy MacKinnon, AB, Merchant Navy
Iain MacQuarrie, AB, Merchant Navy
Charles Thompson, AB, Merchant Navy

BITHIDH SINN NAR COMAIN GU SIORRAIDH AIRSON AR MISNEACH
AGUS AR DAIGHNEACHDA THUG SHIB SEACHAD AIRSON AN
DUTHAICH AGAIBH

WE SHALL BE FOREVER INDEBTED TO YOU FOR YOUR
BRAVERY AND SACRIFICE

Regards
Hugh

dhubthaigh · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject:

Name: McLELLAN, ANGUS
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Service No: S/13551
Additional information: Son of Duncan McLellan and the late Helen McLellan, of Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inverness-shire. His brothers Archie and Donald also fell.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 119 to 124.
Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL

Name: McLELLAN, ARCHIBALD
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sailor
Regiment/Service: Mercantile Marine
Unit Text: S.S. "Mangara" (Glasgow)
Age: 26
Date of Death: 28/07/1915
Additional information: Son of Duncan McLellan and the late Helen McLellan, of Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inverness-shire. His brothers Donald and Angus also fell.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Memorial: TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

Name: McLELLAN, DONALD
Initials: D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Unit Text: 100th Coy.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 03/11/1916
Service No: 12312
Awards: M M
Additional information: Son of Duncan McLellan and the late Helen McLellan, of Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inverness-shire. His brothers Archibald and Angus also fell.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 5 C and 12 C.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Adam Brown · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:20 am Post subject:

Many thanks to Hugh and Ken Dalziel for posting this memorial. It's nice to see a memorial recording those who served as well as those who died. It would be interesting to get some background information on the erection of this memorial.

From Mark's post note that all three McLellan brothers have no known grave.

Here also are the details of the Second World War dead. Craftsman MacIntyre died in 1946 and is buried on Eigg.

CAMPBELL, DUNCAN
Rank: Able Seaman
Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy
Unit Text: S.S. Empire Florizel (Greenock)
Age: 37
Date of Death: 21/07/1943
Additional information: Son of Angus and Isabella Campbell.
Place of birth: Eigg
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 41.
Memorial: TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

MacINTYRE, DUNCAN
Rank: Craftsman
Regiment/Service: Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Unit Text: 154 Inf. Base Workshops.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 04/06/1946
Service No: 3249892
Additional information: Son of John and Isabella MacIntyre; husband of Mary Jane MacIntyre, of Isle of Eigg.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: KILDONAN CEMETERY, ISLE OF EIGG, SMALL ISLES

MacKINNON, DONALD
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 01/06/1944
Service No: 5959088
Additional information: Son of John and Kate MacKinnon, of Bayview, Isle of Eigg.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. R. 6.
Cemetery: NAPLES WAR CEMETERY

Adam

Hugh · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject:

Thanks Adam, I will try and get some of the other island memorials for the site.

From what I am told the previous owner of the Island would not allow a memorial on Eigg. I will seek clarification on this.

Archibald MacLellan was one of eleven men lost whilst serving on ss MANGARA official number 96092 built in 1889 for SS Mangara Co Ltd (Maclay & McIntyre), Glasgow.

28.7.1915 Torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea 1/4 mile E. from Sizewell Buoy, Aldeburgh by German submarine UB 16 whilst on a voyage from Bilbao to Tees with a cargo of iron ore.

Duncan Campbel was one of nine men (2 crew, 4 gunners, 3 passengers) lost whilst serving on ss EMPIRE FLORIZEL official number 169503 built in 1943 for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).

21.7.43 Bombed and sunk off Augusta, Sicily.

Both of them have no grave but the sea.

Hugh

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