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James John Laing

Corporal

Service No. 1040

Age 32

Died on 22 July 1916

Royal Scots

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of Annie Blair Laing, of The Hawthorn's, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, and the late Thomas Laing.

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Iain Laing

We will remember them. Today, Tomorrow, Forever.

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We will remember them.

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Pauline Allen

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

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Iain Laing

Uncle Jim, like so many others, gave his life at the Battle of the Somme.

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James Laing was a tailor, and was to take over the family business. He had trained as a tailor with a firm in Belfast. He was a well-known a...

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