RECORDS OF THE MEN OF LOCHBROOM | 1914 - 1918



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61 - RECORDS OF THE MEN OF LOCHBROOM

 

1917

 

8309A. GUNNER MURDO MACLEAN,

R.N.R., H.M.S. Hazelwood.

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Aged 38

 

Son of Mr. Norman Maclean, Camuscoille, Achiltibuie.

 

Joined the R.N.R. in May, 1915.
Served in an armed liner, H.M.S. Hazelwood which was lost
with all hands while patrolling off the Coast of England		 Nov. 1917.

 

Had three brother serving -

  • Donald Maclean, R.N.R.
  • John Maclean, R.N.R.
  • Norman Maclean, 4th Seaforths. Killed.

 

“God, the God or our fathers, gave us a flag to keep:

And a cross for our flag to carry over the circling deep.

We put the blood of our life’s best hopes, and the blue of the Northern sea,

And the white of Christ upon it, and bid the winds blow it free.

 

Sometimes the stars were with us, - sometimes the heavens were dark;

Sometimes the deep seas clutched us, from battles grim and stark:

But we guarded and kept the message of the brave and the seas, and God,

Till the sifting wind of the Judgement Dawn shall carry our dust abroad.“

- L. M'Lean Watt.

 

Official information

Official record (CWGC)

 

Cemetery / Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Portsmouth, UK.

Grave: Panel 27.

  

Location and Map (CWGC)

 

Local Memorial: Not commemorated locally.

  

additional information

Official records state his date of death as being the 18th of October 1917.

  

"HAZELWOOD, STEAMSHIP, TORPEDOED AND SUNK BY UC.62 IN ENGLISH CHANNEL; NAVAL CASUALTIES: COX, WILLIAM J, ACT/LEADING SEAMAN (RFR B 5623), 204997 (DEV) MACLEAN, MURDO, SEAMAN, RNR, A 8309 ROSENBERG, LESLIE, ORDINARY SEAMAN, RNVR, TYNESIDE Z 10143."

  

"HAZELWOOD, 3,120GRT, DEFENSIVELY-ARMED, 18 OCTOBER 1917, 8 MILES S BY E ½ E FROM ANVIL POINT, TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING AND SUNK BY SUBMARINE, 32 LIVES LOST INCLUDING MASTER."

  

Information kindly shared by Mrs. Rhona Forsyth:

Pte Norman MacLean, 4th Seaforths & No61.Gunner Murdo MacLean RNR (brothers ) were my late husband Finlay Forsyths' maternal uncles, they were also uncles to Ali" Beg" MacLeod, Achiltibuie & therefore great uncles of Duncan MacLeod the ambulance driver.

  

Family information

His connection with the Parish today is not known.

  



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