Stornoway Gazette, 25 September 1942
The funeral took place to Sandwick Cemetery on Friday 18 September of Sergeant Alasdair Mackay, RAF, son of Mr A. Mackay, Creed Bungalow, Stornoway. Sergeant Mackay was reported missing on service with the RAF some weeks in June, and his body was recovered from the sea on 14 September.
At the request of the relatives, the body was brought to Lewis for interment. It lay overnight in the Free Church where the funeral service was held on Friday by Rev. Kenneth Macrae, MA. The funeral was attended by three members of his squadron who travelled to Lewis specially and was conducted with military honours, a representative party of the RAF personnel being present.
Alasdair, who was a very popular lad in Stornoway, and well spoken of, had won the confidence of his officers in the Royal Air Force as well. His Squadron Leader, writing to Mr Mackay, states that he had chosen Alasdair to be his observer, and felt they could have done great things together. "I chose him because from the very start I was so impressed by his unfailing good humour and his boundless energy in getting to know his job thoroughly.I had the greatest confidence in him and I think he was happy with me. He is being very much missed by the officers and men of this squadron and I send you my deepest personal sympathy".
In addition to his father, step-mother and step-sister, Alasdair leaves two brothers: George, who has been discharged from the army on medical grounds, and Kenneth, who is a prisoner of war in Germany.
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