Sergeant JOHN MACDONALD
Last known address in North Uist: Carinish, North Uist
Son of Angus and Margaret Macdonald
Service unit: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Service number: 860
Born in 1881
Date of death: 17 September 1916 at the age of 36
Interred: Contay British Cemetery, I. C. 9
Local memorial: North Uist
Awarded DSM
John signed up at Lewis Camp on 12 September 1914.
Height: 5 ft 11
Complexion: fresh
Eyes: blue
Hair: brown
Religion: presbyterian
John appears in the 1881 census aged 4 months, the son of Angus (40) and Margaret (32) and brother of Anne (10), Donald (7), Angus (5) and Alexander (3). A decade later, three children younger than John appear in the census, James (7), Donald A (6) and Maggie (2).
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