Bunessan War Memorial
Location : 505.555

Situated close to Bunessan Primary School just off the A849 Craignure to Fionnphort road.
View from Salen to Tobermory road.
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TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR OUR FREEDOM GREAT WAR 1 1914-1918
PTE. DAVID ANDERSON
PTE. ARCHIBALD BEATON
PTE. DONALD BEATON See Note 1
PTE JAMES BROWN
P.O. COLIN CAMERON
PTE. DUGALD CAMERON See Note 7
PTE JAMES CAMERON
A.B. LACHLAN CAMERON
A.B. NEIL CAMERON see Note 2
PTE ROBERT CARNIE
COL. LESLIE SINCLAIR CHEAPE
COL. HUGH A CHEAPE
PTE ROBERT CLEGHORN
PTE WILLIAM CRAIG
A.B. JOHN COWAN
A.B. DUNCAN MUNN LAMONT
LIEUT HECTOR MACLEAN LEE
PTE. DONALD MACCALLUM See Note 5
A.B. HECTOR MACCALLUM
A.B. HUGH MACCALLUM
PIPER JOHN SWEENEY D.C.M.
PTE DUNCAN MACCOLL
C.E.R.A. 1st Cl WILLIAM MACORMACK
PTE ARCHIBALD MACDONALD
CPO DONALD MACDONALD
CPT HUGH MACDONALD
PTE. JOHN MACDONALD
PTE ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
A.B. JOHN MACFARLANE
A.B. MALCOLM MACFARLANE
A.B. NEIL MACFARLANE
A.B. JOHN MACGILLIVRAY see Note 3
PTE. DUNCAN MACINNES see Note 4
SGT. WILLIAM MACKINLAY D.C.M.
A.B. ARCHIBALD MACKECHNIE see Note 6
SGT ARCHIBALD J MACKECHNIE
L Cpl ALEXANDER MACLEAN
SGT. DONALD MACLEAN  See Note 8
A.B NEIL MACFEE
L Cpl ROBERT MACQUATTIE
SGT JAMES STIRRAT D.C.M
   
GREAT WAR II 1939-1945  
   
GDSM DUNCAN MACFADYEN
PTE. CHARLES MACKINNON
CHIEF OFFICER JAMES CAMERON MN

THEIRS IS THE GLORY
PTE. DAVID MACARTHUR
A.B. DONALD KENNEDY R.N.
   
Not listed on memorial but from the area.

Private MCDONALD, ALEXANDER
Service Number S/41017
Died 12/05/1917
Aged 38
6th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
Son of Robert and Isabella McDonald, of Ardchiavaig, Bunessan, Mull, Argyll.
Commemorated at ARRAS MEMORIAL
Location: Pas de Calais, France

Corporal MACKENZIE, JOHN
Service Number 2530
Died 05/10/1916
Aged 19
1st/8th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Son of Margaret MacKenzie, of Boyd's Land, Bunessan Mull, Argyllshire, and the late W. MacKenzie.
Buried at GLENORCHY PARISH CHURCHYARD
Location: Argyllshire, United Kingdom
Note 1 Rank:Private
Service No:238006
Date of Death:24/04/1917
Age:36
Regiment/Service:Seaforth Highlanders "D" Coy. 8th Bn.
Grave Reference: IV. E. 6.
Cemetery:Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, Pas de Calais, France
Additional Information:Son of John and Catherine Beaton, of Lower Ardtun, Bunessan, Mull; husband of Catherine MacColl Beaton, of Ardsheal, Kentallen, Argyll.
 
Note 2 Rank:Boatswain
Trade:Bosun
Date of Death:19/08/1917
Age:23
Regiment/Service:Mercantile Marine S.S. "Gartness" (Glasgow)
Panel Reference:
Memorial:Tower Hill Memorial
Additional Information:Son of Donald Cameron, of Uisken, Bunessan, Mull, Scotland, and the late Flora Cameron. Born at Oban.
 
Note 3  Rank:Able Seaman
Service No:1712/SD
Date of Death:03/09/1919
Age:31
Regiment/Service:Royal Navy H.M.S. "Victory."
Grave Reference: In North-West part.
Cemetery:Kilvickeon Old Churchyard, Kilfinichen And Kilvickeon, Isle Of Mull
Additional Information:Son of Ann MacGillivray, of Erraid Island, Ross of Mull, Oban, and the late John MacGillivray. (In the same grave is buried : MacGillivray, Dk. Hd. Hector, 2817/S.D. R.N.R. H.M.S. "Wallington." 1st April, 1922. Son of Ann MacGillivrery, of Erraid Island, Ross of Mull, and the late John MacGillivray).
Note 4 Rank Private
Service Number 268291
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Date of death: 23/04/1917 (aged 22)
Son of Neil and Margaret McInnes, of Fionphort, Ross of Mull, Argyll.
Commemorated at ARRAS MEMORIAL
Location: Pas de Calais, France
 
Note 5 
Nineteen year old Donald McCallum from Kintra was one of the casualties of Gallipoli. He was one of the five sons of John McCallum a mason/ builder and his wife Mary. A former pupil of the school at Creich, he became an apprentice carpenter at Greenock and joined the 5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Greenock Territorials). He went into training at the outbreak of war. On 3 July the next year he arrived at the front and in little over a week he was killed in action in the Dardanelles, on 12 July 1915. Valerie Fielding, both Volunteer and Director at the Ross of Mull Historical Centre, Bunessan, Isle of Mull.
Note 6
Rank : Able Seaman
Service Number 908175
H.M.S. "Redbreast."
Mercantile Marine Reserve
Date of death: 15/07/1917 (aged 26)
Son of Duncan and Margaret McKechnie, of Inver Fionport, Mull, Argyllshire.
Commemorated at PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Location: Devon, United Kingdom

Note 7
The Commonwealth War Graves have the follow for a Dugald Cameron but this Dugald is listed as RAF
Air Mechanic 3rd Class
CAMERON, DUGALD
Service Number 250144
Died 29/01/1919
Aged 19
Royal Air Force
Son of Hugh Cameron, of Assapol, Bunessan, Mull, Argyllshire.
Buried at KILVICKEON OLD CHURCHYARD, KILFINICHEN AND KILVICKEON, ISLE OF MULL

Note 8
Serjeant MCLEAN, DONALD
Service Number 14730
Died 08/06/1917
Aged 28
2nd Bn. 3rd New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Son of George and Christina McFarlan McLean, of Ardchiavaig, Bunessan, Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland.
Commemorated at MESSINES RIDGE (N.Z.) MEMORIAL
Location: West-Vlaanderen, Belgium



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