Surname:	Macpherson
Forename(s):	Lewis John
Rank:	Gunner
Service number:	65115
Regiment:	10th Coy. Royal Garrison Artillery
Date of death:	21 July 1916 Aged 28
Place of death:	Civil Hospital, Queenstown (Cork), Ireland
Buried Commemorated	Cobh Old Church Cemetery – B.19.29. Kingussie War Memorial, Kingussie and Insh Memorial in Kingussie Parish Church and St Andrew’s United Free Church Memorial now in Kingussie Parish Church.

Background

Lewis was born on 27 June 1888 at Brae Ruthven, Kingussie. Son of Donald (Gamekeeper) and Margaret Macpherson (m.s. Grant) who married 10 December 1885 at the Nethybridge Hotel.

In the 1911 Census Lewis is recorded as a Gamekeeper, at the Keepers House, Glentromie.

Lewis was a member of the 1914 Kingussie Camanachd Cup winning shinty team.

Lewis had one sister Jane (Jeannie). Two weeks after Lewis death Jeannie had a baby boy whom she named Lewis John Macpherson Richard. James Richard, his brother in law and fellow Gamekeper on Glentromie, applied to join the Army and he subsequently enlisted in the 8th Cameron Highlanders.

War Record

Lewis died, aged 28, at the Civil Hospital, Queenstown, Ireland on 21 July 1916. The Inverness Courier of 25 July 1916 reports that Lewis died of a severe illness.

Many of those who perished on the RMS Lusitania, which sank on 7 May 1915, are also buried at Cobh Old Church Cemetery in the town that was formerly known as Queenstown.

Lewis is buried at Cobh (Cork) Old Church Cemetery. His grave stone is not that of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission but the grave is marked by a family stone which has inscribed

“In ever loving memory of our dear son. Erected by his father and mother. Glentromie Kingussie Scotland”.

Lewis left an estate of £156.4s.10d.