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Corporal WILLIAM ROBERT LAING

Service Number: 2867468
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Pioneer Corps

Aux. Mil.

Date of Death

Died 17 June 1940

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORNIC WAR CEMETERY

1. B. 10.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Hannah Laing, of Plaistow, Essex; husband of Ada Elizabeth Laing, of Plaistow.
  • Personal Inscription GOD TAKES OUR LOVED ONES FROM OUR HOMES BUT NEVER FROM OUR HEARTS
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Buried or commemorated at

PORNIC WAR CEMETERY
Loire-Atlantique France
Number of casualties: 400
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