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jamiemcginlay
Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 930 Location: Glasgow
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject: Carloway - Isle of Lewis |
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The Carloway memorial is a fairly recent addition to the landscape and was unveiled on Remembrance Sunday 1989. Its a beautiful memorial and is floodlit so it makes quite an impact when you discover it at night as I did. It was constructed of Balmoral Marble. I'm afraid my daylight photographs of the names didn't turn out very well, the floodlit pictures are more easy to read. Sadly the memorial also lists the men of the community lost in the Iolair disaster at the end of WWI.
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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Jim
It is interesting that there are four Korean War names - all serving in US Forces. Is USMA the US Military Academy at West Point I wonder?
I notice they have Korean War as 1950-1956 instead of 1950-1953. Did it officially end in 1956? You sometimes see the Great War as 1914-1919 so there is a precedence.
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CSMMo
Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Oceanside, California, USA
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:43 am Post subject: |
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Adam, The only USMA I know of is West Point, but they didn't send anybody until they graduated, had been commissioned and assigned to a unit that was engaged.
Jim,
Do you know the significance of the numbers on the left? There are some Ross Mountain Battery boys there.
Mike Morrison _________________ Researching the 4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade, RGA (TF), Argyll, Bute and Ross & Cromarty Mountain Batteries - Gallipoli, Egypt & Salonika |
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jamiemcginlay
Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 930 Location: Glasgow
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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Hello Mike,
Soory I can't be certain but I assumed they were the addresses or house numbers of the men.
Jim |
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:51 am Post subject: |
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jamiemcginlay wrote: | I assumed they were the addresses or house numbers of the men.
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I assumed it was house numbers as well.
Regards
Adam |
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CSMMo
Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Oceanside, California, USA
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:29 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for your ideas. How interesting that they would put house numbers, but it brings home how small some of these areas are. We all know that the Isle of Lewis took a disproportionately high number of deaths in The Great War.
Mike Morrison _________________ Researching the 4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade, RGA (TF), Argyll, Bute and Ross & Cromarty Mountain Batteries - Gallipoli, Egypt & Salonika |
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alexmaclennan
Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 151 Location: Just West of Glasgow
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:52 am Post subject: Numbers on Lewis Memorials |
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jamiemcginlay wrote: | Hello Mike,
Soory I can't be certain but I assumed they were the addresses or house numbers of the men.
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Not house numbers but CROFT numbers.
In a village each croft (strip of ground of about 5 acres) is allocated a number. The house takes the number of the croft, which is why if two houses are built on a croft they will be A and B.
The Lewis and Islay memorials give the villages that the fallen came from and Lewis memorials often also give croft numbers. I think it may be local custom but also identifies the men with the land. The land was of vital importance in these villages as it was part of their subsistence living.
My village in Lewis was created after WW1 when men returning from the war raided Lord Leverhume's hunting fishing estate and settled - they felt they were due land for fighting.
alex _________________ alex maclennan |
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CSMMo
Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Oceanside, California, USA
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for that explanation Alex. Any chance you're related to one (or more) of the 10 Maclennans (That I know of) of the Ross Mountain Battery?
Mike Morrison _________________ Researching the 4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade, RGA (TF), Argyll, Bute and Ross & Cromarty Mountain Batteries - Gallipoli, Egypt & Salonika |
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adb41
Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 178 Location: Stornoway
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:33 pm Post subject: Memorial revisited |
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I revisited the memorial today, and found the lettering had been touched up, greatly improving its legibility. I append the relevant images. The first image of the panels is enlarged, in order to improve legibility of the imprint.
View of memorial
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adb41
Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 178 Location: Stornoway
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Transcripts
1914-1918
UPPER CARLOWAY
2 D Maciver (uncle), Army
2 D Maciver (nephew), Army
3 A Macdonald, Army
6 D Mackay, Army
8 D W Macleod, Army
9 M Mackenzie, Army
14 D Macleod, Army
15 J Macleod, Army
18 W Macaulay, Can. Army
18 F Mackay, Army
21 D J. Macleod, Army
29 A Macarthur, RNR
31 K Macleod, Army
43 M Macaulay, Army
48 J Mackay, Can. Army
48 M Mackay, Army
48 D Mackay, Army
Park, Carloway
1 D Mackay, Army
2 K Macarthur, Army
3 M Paterson, Army
3 J Paterson, Army
5 D Macleod, Army
41 D Macleod, Can. Army
42 J Macarthur, S. African Army
Millpark, J Macleod, Can. Army
Sunnybrae D. Macleod, RNR
1939-1945
UPPER CARLOWAY
27A A M Macgregor, QAIMNS
44 D J Macarthur, MN
Ard na Sithean M Macleod, MN
PARK
45 A Macarthur, MN |
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adb41
Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 178 Location: Stornoway
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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Transcripts
1914-1918
KNOCK
5 D Mackenzie, Can. Army
28 N Macarthur, Army
30 C Macdonald, Can. Army
31 J W Macleod, Army
1939-1945
4 N Maciver, MN
24 J A Macaulay, RN
27 N Mackay, Army
30 N Macdonald, RN
The Registry, A M Maciver, RAF
Cnoc an Eoin, D I M Mackay, Indian Army
IOLAIRE DISASTER, 1-1-1919
3 Kirvick, J Macaskill, RNR
8 Kirvick, J Macleod, RNR
12 Kirvick, D Macarthur, RNR
32B Knock, N Macphail, RNR
11 Borrowston, D Macphail, RNR
15 Garenin, M Mackenzie, RNR |
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adb41
Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 178 Location: Stornoway
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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Transcripts
1914-1918
KIRVICK
2 M Mackay, RNR
3 M Macaskill, Army
4 A Mackay, Army
7 J Macleod, Army
8 K J Macleod, RNR
14 M Maclean, RNR
DOUNE
3 D Maclean, Army
4 N Morrison, Army
9 M Maclean, Army
9 D Maclean, RNR
14 D Macleod, Army
20 D Macleod, RNR
1939-1945
7 D J Macphail, RNR
18 J M Maclean, RNR
KOREAN WAR 1950-1956
4 Kirvick, A Mackay, USAF
8 Kirvick, M D Macleod, USAF
5 Doune, M A Macaskill, US Marines
42 Park, K J Macarthur, USMA |
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adb41
Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 178 Location: Stornoway
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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1914-1918
BORROWSTON
6 D Macarthur, RNR
14 D Macleod, RNR
GARENIN
4 D Macleod, RNR
4 A Macleod, RNR
12 D Macleod, Army
12 M Macleod, Army
16 J Maclennan, RNR
23 M Macleod, RNR
25 M Macritchie, RNR
27 N Maciver, Army
1939-1945
4 N Macleod, MN
11 M Macleod, Army
11 K J Macleod, MN |
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anne park Our first ever 2000 poster
Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 21200 Location: Aberdeen
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 8:06 am Post subject: John MacLeod Pte GH - Carloway |
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John MacLeod Private 3/5624 1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders Nigg, Ross-shire Fort George 22 Killed in Action West-Vlaanderen, Belgium 14/12/1914 Son of Donald Macleod, of 15, Carloway, Stornoway, Lewis. Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres M. R. 29 Panel 38 _________________ Researching WWI info from Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire & Morayshire. |
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