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Private DAVID LAING

Service Number: 4594
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Scottish Horse

1st/1st

Date of Death

Died 10 August 1916

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

F. 126.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander and Mary Laing, of Blacklea Place, Caldercruix, Lanarkshire.
  • Personal Inscription ASLEEP IN JESUS
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Buried or commemorated at

CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 2411
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