Rev Malcolm Macleod Signed (1 results)

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Hand Written Letter and Signed by Rev. Malcolm MacLeod Minister of the Church of Scotland. Dated 1937. Rev. Malcolm MacLeod was inducted as minister of the United Free Church of Scotland in Lochgilphead in 1916. A native of Uig in the island of Lewis, he had served as U. F. minister in Strath in Skye since 1910. But soon after coming to Lochgilphead Malcolm MacLeod answered the call to be an army chaplain in France with the 51st (Highland) Division, serving with the 4th Battalion the Gordon Highlanders. Rev. Malcolm MacLeod kept a diary detailing the services he held while serving as an army chaplain in France In his diary MacLeod gives a vivid description of the horrors of war, the roar of the big guns, shells sometimes exploding in a thousand pieces above them or ploughing through the ground leaving large craters, while planes flew above them like flocks of birds. What gave him hope was the sound of a skylark pouring out its song in the midst of such turmoil or hearing a thrush singing on a tree trunk. With the coming of peace, Malcolm MacLeod returned to serve the United Free Church congregation in Lochgilphead for a further six years. A long letter to a Miss Mackenzie in relation to the death of her father Professor Mackenzie at Edinburgh University. On 17th September 1924 Rev. Malcolm MacLeod left Lochgilphead to become minister of John Knox and Tradeston Church in Glasgow which at that time was a Gaelic charge. In 1937, now a minister of the Church of Scotland, following the Union of the churches in 1929, he moved to Balquhidder in Perthshire. He became ill and died in hospital in Glasgow on 21st June 1946, Size is 205 x 170mm. Condition is good. Folding creases.Gum marks to top edges. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17341. Signed by Author(s).