Village memorial: Balallan

FIRST WORLD WAR

Private DONALD MACKINNON
Last address in Lewis: 2 Balallan
Son of Malcolm and Christina MacKinnon, of 8, Ranish Lochs, Stornoway; husband of Kate MacKinnon, of 2, Balallan, Lochs, Stornoway.
7th Seaforth Highlanders
Date of death: 12 October 1916
Age of death: 35

Company Sergeant-Major DONALD MACDONALD
Last address in Lewis: 5 Balallan
Son of Murdo and Ann MacDonald, of Kershader, Stornoway; husband of Isabella McDonald, of 5, Balallan Lochs, Stornoway.
1st Cameron Highlanders
Date of death: 18 September 1918
Age of death: 41

Signaller KENNETH MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 10 Balallan
5th Seaforth Highlanders
Date of death: 31 July 1917

Second Lieutenant NEIL MACDONALD
Last address in Lewis: 14 Balallan
Son of Murdo and Catherine MacDonald, of 14, Balallan, Stornoway.
263rd Siege Battery RGA (Special Reserve).
Date of death: 25 April 1918
Age of death: 24

Private MURDO JOHN MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 17 Balallan
Son of Malcolm and Janet Macdonald
5th Cameron Highlanders
Date of death: 25 September 1915
Age of death: 25

Gunner MALCOLM MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 18 Balallan
Son of Malcolm and Johanna Maceod, of 18, Balallan, Stornoway, Ross-shire.
Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Idaho
Date of death: 1 January 1919 (Iolaire)
Age of death: 20

Civilian JOHN MACDONALD
Last address in Lewis: 19 Balallan
Mercantile Marine, SS Vine Branch
Date of death: 11 April 1917
Age of death: 29

Leading Deckhand DONALD MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 20 Balallan
Son of Malcolm and Mary MacLeod, of Balallan, Stornoway; husband of Catherine MacLeod, of 20B, Balallan, Stornoway, Ross-shire.
Royal Naval Reserve, HMT Sealark II
Date of death: 30 September 1918
Age of death: 39

Gunner MALCOLM MARTIN
Last address in Lewis: 21 Balallan
Son of Donald and Christina McAulay Martin, of 21, Balallan, Stornoway.
Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Pembroke
Date of death: 1 January 1919 (Iolaire)
Age of death: 38

Signaller COLIN ALEXANDER SMITH
Last address in Lewis: 27 Balallan
Son of Malcolm Smith, of Sheildenish, Lochs; husband of Colina Smith, of 27, Balallan, Lochs, Stornaway. Father to 4 children
B Coy, 7th Seaforth Highlanders
Date of death: 28 June 1918
Age of death: 37

Private MURDO KENNEDY
Last address in Lewis: 29 Balallan
1st Cameron Highlanders
Date of death: 5 November 1914
Age of death: 33

Quarter-master Serjeant DONALD MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 39A Balallan
Son of Mrs. M. MacLeod, of 39A, Balallan Lochs, Stornoway.
Royal Army Medical Corps, London Sanitary Company (32nd Sanitary Section), attached Tank Corps HQ
Date of death: 14 August 1918
Age of death: 40

Piper JOHN MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 39A Balallan
Son of Marion MacLeod, of 39A, Ballallan Lochs, Stornoway, Scotland, and the late Donald MacLeod.
67th Western Scots Canadian Infantry
Date of death: 8 February 1919
Age of death: 37

Private JOHN MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 39B Balallan
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
Date of death: 14 October 1916
Age of death: 34

Lance-Corporal RODERICK DAN MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 39A Balallan
Son of Marion MacLeod, of 39A, Ballallan
11th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
Date of death: 29 September 1915
Age of death: 25

Private DONALD MACLEOD SNEDDON
Last address in Lewis: 39A Balallan
Son of William and Mary Snaddon, of 3, White Street, Partick, Glasgow.
1st Royal Scots Fusiliers
Date of death: 19 January 1916
Age of death: 15

Private GEORGE MACKENZIE
Last address in Lewis: 46 Balallan
Son of Roderick and Isabella McKenzie, of 46, Balallan Lochs, Stornoway.
1st Cameron Highlanders
Date of death: 11 November 1914
Age of death: 23

Lance-Corporal MURDO MACKENZIE
Last address in Lewis: 49 Balallan
2nd Seaforth Highlanders
Date of death: 4 October 1917
Age of death: 23

Lance-Sergeant JOHN MACKENZIE
Last address in Lewis: 60 Balallan
7th Cameron Highlanders
Date of death: 4 April 1918
Age of death: 26

Lance-Corporal NORMAN MACKINNON
Last address in Lewis: 67 (Halfway House) Balallan
Son of Kenneth and Augusta Maciver Mackinnon, of Balallan, Lewis, Ross-shire.
14th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
Date of death: 14 March 1917
Age of death: 30

SECOND WORLD WAR

Gunner DONALD MACDONALD
Last address in Lewis: 14 Balallan
Son of Murdo and Catherine Macdonald, of Balallan, Isle of Lewis. Scotland.
Royal Horse Artillery, 13 (Honourable Artillery Coy.) Regt
Date of death: 9 April 1944
Age at death: 33

Captain JOHN SMITH
Last address in Lewis: 16 Balallan
Son of John and Catherine Smith; husband of Edith May Smith, of Streatham, London.
Royal Naval Reserve
Date of death: 8 April 1943
Age at death: 37

Ordinary Seaman ANGUS JOHN MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 39 Balallan
Royal Navy
Date of death: 14 January 1944

Able Seaman DONALD MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 39 Balallan
Son of Roderick and Rodina MacLeod, of Balallan, Isle of Lewis.
Merchant Navy
Date of death: 22 January 1943
Age at death: 27

Private MALCOLM MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 75 Balallan
Son of Malcolm and Mary Ann Macleod, of Balallan.
7th Seaforth Highlanders
Date of death: 4 August 1944
Age at death: 30

Leading Seaman MURDO MCLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 6 Balallan
Son of Colin McLeod and of Catherine McLeod (nee Morrison), of Swainbost Ness; husband of Mary McLeod (nee Smith), of Lochs.
Royal Naval Reserve
Date of death: 25 October 1943
Age at death: 29