DEARLY BELOVED SON OF
MR AND MRS SMITH
POST OFFICE, KEOSE, STORNOWAY

PRIVATE RODERICK SMITH

CAMERON HIGHLANDERS

22ND JULY 1917 AGE 24

BURIED: BRANDHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE


Keose is a crofting township on the Isle of Lewis where Angus and Alexanderina Smith opened a Post Office in 1901. They had twelve children of whom Roderick was one. Before joining up, he had moved away from Stornoway and was working in the drapery trade in South Wales. Soon after he arrived at the front he was wounded in the right hand, which necessitiated the amputation of a finger. He worked for a time as a clerk behind the lines before returning to active service where he was injured and died of wounds whilst being transported to hospital.