RECORDS OF THE MEN OF LOCHBROOM | 1914 - 1918



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4 - RECORDS OF THE MEN OF LOCHBROOM

 

1915

 

2822A. GUNNER ARCHIBALD M'LEOD, R.N.R.

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Aged 28

 

Son of Mr. Murdo M'Leod, Polbain, Achiltibuie.

 

Enlisted in the Royal Naval Reserve 1910
Called up 3rd Aug. 1914
Posted to Drake Battalion and was at the Siege of Antwerp. -
Studied gunnery at Whale Island. Posted to H.M.S. Viknor. -
Sailed from England 1st Jan. 1915
The Ship went down with all hands 12th Jan 1915

 

Had four brothers serving –

  • Alexander M'Leod, 4th Seaforths. Received D.C.M. at Neuve Chapelle.
  • Donald M'Leod, Alberta Regiment,, Canadian Army, severely wounded near Amiens, 1918.
  • Roderick M'Leod, N.Z.I.F.
  • William M'Leod, N.Z.I.F., wounded at Gallipoli.

 

“Well hast thou sailed, now die,

To die is not to sleep.

Still your true course you keep,

O sailor soul, still sailing for the sky,

And fifty fathoms deep,

Your colours still shall fly." - From the poem: "Man Sails the Deep Awhile" by Robert Louis Stevenson.

 

Official information

Official record (CWGC)

 

Cemetery / Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UK.

Grave: Panel 10

 

Location and Map (CWGC)

 

Local Memorial: Not commemorated locally

 

additional information

Official records state he was (a) a Seaman, not a Gunner, (b) aged 27 and not 28, and (c) his ship went down on the 13th of January 1915 and not on the 12th.

 

The official record also states: Son of Murdo and Mrs. M. MacLeod, of Hillside Cottage, Polbain, Achiltibuie, Garve, Ross-shire.

 

Family information

The connection with the Parish today is not known.

 



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