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Murdo Maclean
Royal Naval Reserve


John Macleod
Royal Naval Reserve


Matthew Murray
Son of Neil Murray, tailor
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Date of death: 8 September 1916 at the age of 28
Died at home
Was connected with the Army from boyhood. When barely 14 he enlisted in the Seaforth Militia as a bugler, and served 6 years in that capacity. Was four 3 Tears in the Gordons (T.F.) ; joined voluntarily the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders when war was declared in August 1914. While undergoing training he contracted enteric fever and soon after his discharge from hospital took rheumatic fever; was discharged on medical grounds, 25th July, 1916.

Alexander D. Murray
Son of Neil Murray, tailor
24th Australians
Date of death: 1 September 1918 at the age of 25
Killed in action
Was a seaman for three years on a colliery transport; went to Australia in 1916; joined Australian Forces, 1917; went into firing line in France in March, 1918

Murdo Murray
2nd Seaforth Highlanders
Awarded Military medal for gallantry in the field, rushed enemy gun single-handed, killed 2, captured 4 as well as the gun.
Wounded twice

Son of Neil Murray, tailor


Alexander I. Macleod
Royal Engineers

Corporal Malcolm M. Macleod
Highland Light Infantry

Son of Angus Macleod, baker


Electrician Angus Ferguson Murray
Royal Navy
Discharged in 1916 due to nervous breakdown

Robert Murray
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Date of death: 12 October 1917 at the age of 21
Killed in action
Had been gassed on the Somme

Son of Robert Clark Murray of London


Donald Macdonald
1st Royal Scots

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