Barvas / Barabhas

Seaman JOHN MACLEAN
Last address in Lewis: 31 Lower Barvas
Son of John and Murdina MacLean, of Stornaway, Isle of Lewis.
Service unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Alonia
Service number: D/X19740A
Date of death: 10 April 1942 at the age of 24
Lost on ship
Interred: Kirkee War Cemetery, grave 3. K. 14

Seaman JOHN MACRITCHIE
Last address in Lewis: 34 Lower Barvas
Service unit: Royal Navy, HMS Viceroy of India
Service number: C/JX 277112
Date of death: 11 November 1942 at the age of 33
Interred: La Reunion War Cemetery, Algeria
Remembered on private gravestone in Barvas Cemeter
Lost on ship at sea

Private DONALD MACDONALD PATERSON
Last address in Lewis: 5 Upper Barvas
Son of Kenneth Paterson and Christina Macdonald
Service unit: Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Service number: B/94288
Date of death: 30 November 1944 at the age of 49
Interred: Barvas Cemetery
Served in both World Wars. Died in a bombing raid on London. His ashes were interred; his wife's ashes were interred alongside his many years later.
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Commodore MURDO MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 17 Upper Barvas
Son of Murdo and Christina MacLeod; husband of Gladys Mary MacLeod, of Rumney, Cardiff.
Service unit: Merchant Navy, SS Fort Buckingham
Date of death: 20 January 1944 at the age of 59
Lost at sea when ship was sunk by U-188
Memorial: Tower Hill, panel 50