Shipwreck where 200 soldiers died on way home from First World War is recognised as war grave

'There was barely a family on the island that didn’t lose a relative in the disaster,' says Western Isles MSP

Only 82 of the 283 passengers on board HMY Iolaire survived when it smashed into rocks and sank off the Isle of Lewis on January 1, 1919. Around a third of the bodies were never recovered.

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