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Military service
Age:
31
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Governor General's Foot Guards, R.C.A.C.
Division:
21st Armd. Regt.
Birth:
May 22, 1913
Medicine Hall, Alberta
Enlistment:
July 8, 1940
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
August 8, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIX. B. 10.
Additional information
Son of Lorne Nelson Laidlaw and May Hall Laidlaw, of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Diploma for Business Administration (University of Western Ontario).
Digital gallery of Major Robert Hall Laidlaw
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Family Memorial
LAIDLAW LORNE NELSON 1882-1946 MAY HALL 1885-1976 MAJ. ROBERT HALL 1913-1944 KILLED IN ACTION - CAEN DR. LORNA JANE 1915-2007 [MEMORIAL MARKER with family - located at the Hillside Cemetery in Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada) -
Plaque
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2163 Major Robert Hall Laidlaw (RMC 1930) was the son of Lorne Nelson Laidlaw and May Hall Laidlaw, of Medicine Hat, Alberta. He earned a Diploma for Business Administration (University of Western Ontario). He served with the Governor General's Foot Guards, R.C.A.C., 21st Armd. Regt. He died Aug 8, 1944.at 31 years of age. He was buried at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France. -
Memorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2163 Major Robert Hall Laidlaw (RMC 1930) was the son of Lorne Nelson Laidlaw and May Hall Laidlaw, of Medicine Hat, Alberta. He earned a Diploma for Business Administration (University of Western Ontario). He served with the Governor General's Foot Guards, R.C.A.C., 21st Armd. Regt. He died Aug 8, 1944.at 31 years of age. He was buried at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France. -
Stained Glass Window
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2163 Major Robert Hall Laidlaw (RMC 1930) was the son of Lorne Nelson Laidlaw and May Hall Laidlaw, of Medicine Hat, Alberta. He earned a Diploma for Business Administration (University of Western Ontario). He served with the Governor General's Foot Guards, R.C.A.C., 21st Armd. Regt. He died Aug 8, 1944.at 31 years of age. He was buried at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France. -
Grave marker
2163 Major Robert Hall Laidlaw (RMC 1930) was the son of Lorne Nelson Laidlaw and May Hall Laidlaw, of Medicine Hat, Alberta. He earned a Diploma for Business Administration (University of Western Ontario). He served with the Governor General's Foot Guards, R.C.A.C., 21st Armd. Regt. He died Aug 8, 1944.at 31 years of age. He was buried at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France. -
Stamp
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2163 Major Robert Hall Laidlaw (RMC 1930) was the son of Lorne Nelson Laidlaw and May Hall Laidlaw, of Medicine Hat, Alberta. He studied at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. He earned a Diploma for Business Administration (University of Western Ontario). He served with the Governor General's Foot Guards, R.C.A.C., 21st Armd. Regt. He died Aug 8, 1944.at 31 years of age. He was buried at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France. His name is listed on the Medicine Hat cenotaph in Riverside Park. -
Monument
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2163 Major Robert Hall Laidlaw (RMC 1930) was the son of Lorne Nelson Laidlaw and May Hall Laidlaw, of Medicine Hat, Alberta. He studied at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. He earned a Diploma for Business Administration (University of Western Ontario). He served with the Governor General's Foot Guards, R.C.A.C., 21st Armd. Regt. He died Aug 8, 1944.at 31 years of age. He was buried at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France. His name is listed on the Medicine Hat cenotaph in Riverside Park. -
Photo of ROBERT HALL LAIDLAW
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Robert Hall Laidlaw
Photos of alumni of the Royal Military College of Canada, who were killed in action, line the memorial stairwell. 2168 Major Robert Hall Laidlaw (RMC 1930) served with the Governor General's Foot Guards, R.C.A.C., 21st Armd. Regt. He died on Aug 8, 1944 at 31 years of age. He was buried at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France. -
Memorial
Memorial stair, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario -
Memorial Arch
Memorial arch, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario -
Grave marker
Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in France
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Hall Laidlaw
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Hall Laidlaw
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Hall Laidlaw
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Hall Laidlaw
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Hall Laidlaw
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Hall Laidlaw
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Hall Laidlaw
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Hall Laidlaw
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Hall Laidlaw
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 357 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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