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Military service
Service number:
727162
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
58th Bn.
Birth:
July 15, 1896
London, Ontario
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Laing, of Essex Avenue, Toronto. Formerly C.Q.M.S. 110th Perth Bn. Native of London, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Gordon Laing
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Photo of George Laing
Enlisted December 6, 1915, with the 110th Battalion. Transferred on the 58th Battalion. Killed at Passchendaele. -
Inscription on Menin Gate Memorial
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private George Gordon Laing
Digital gallery of
Private George Gordon Laing
Digital gallery of
Private George Gordon Laing
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 270 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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