From notes by Rev Col AJ Mackenzie, the story of the Old Soldiers of Uig who after the battle for Batavia, had many long years of service before they could finally return home, a full nine years after they had left it as young recruits to the 78th.
Read more →The following comes from the Spring 1987 edition of Sanais, the Comann Eachdraidh’s quarterly publication under the editorship of Anna Mackinnon. There are many tales about the Old Soldiers of […]
Read more →From the appendices of the Historical Record of the 72nd Highlanders, Vol. 2. I’m not aware of a particular Uig aspect to this issue, though there are tales of deserters […]
Read more →A series of articles on the Old Soldiers of Uig appeared in the Comann Eachdraidh Uig publication, Sanais, in the 1980s, from which this is an extract. John Munro, Iain […]
Read more →From Rev William Matheson’s “History of the Families of Lewis – Smith” published under the pseudonym Mac Gille Chaluim in the Stornoway Gazette in the late 1950s. See a further […]
Read more →A mysterious cave full of swords was once discovered on Mealisval, but the could not be found again. Dave Roberts gave the story of the discovery of the cave in […]
Read more →From a manuscript by (as far as I can make out) Rev Col AJ Mackenzie, son of Roderick Mackenzie, gamekeeper at Luachair and Uig Lodge. According to tradition, men were […]
Read more →From Donald Macdonald, Tales and Traditions of the Lews: Around 1840 there were four families living on Pabbay, and prominent among them was one of the old soldiers of Uig, […]
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