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Malcolm MacIver

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Malcolm's Grave marker, image courtesy of ADB48, findagrave.com

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment: January 1916
  • Place of enlistment: Stornoway
  • Service no: 10235DA
  • Rank: Deck Hand
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: H.M.S. Vigorous
  • Unit/Ship: Royal Naval Reserve
  • Place of Death:
  • Age at Death: 37
  • Date of Death: 01/01/1919
  • Burial Country: Scotland
  • Cemetery: Eye Cemetery, Aignish Burial Ground, Lewis
  • Grave/Mem Ref no:

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 20.12.1881
  • Place of Birth:
  • Address: 28 Aignish, Isle of Lewis
  • Occupation: Teacher
  • Mother:

    Mrs Catherine Finlayson Maciver  28 Aignish, Isle of Lewis

  • Father:

    Mr Malcolm Maciver of Aignish, Isle of Lewis

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More about Malcolm MacIver

Malcolm Maciver was the son Mr Malcolm and Mrs Catherine Finlayson Maciver of 28 Aignish, Isle of Lewis and was a Teacher in Dundee before he joined the Royal Naval Reserve in Stornoway in January 1916. He was serving onboard the destroyer HMS Vigorous at the end of the war but was drowned whilst on leave when HMS Iolaire ran onto rocks entering Stornoway in the dark. His body was recovered and he is buried in the Eye Cemetery, Aignish Burial Ground Lewis. Malcolm Maciver is named on the Iolaire Memorial near Stornoway.

Information supplied by Iain Stewart and Iain Birnie

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