LAING James McDougall Lieut

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Surname: LAING;

Forename(s): James McDougall;

Initials: JM;

Rank: Lieut;

Resided in: Edinburgh;

Previous Regiment: Sco Rif;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 25 Bn;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 7 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 25 Bn;

Date abroad: 31-Aug-1916;

Theatre of War: 1;

How killed: KIA;

Where: France;

When killed: 23-Mar-1918;

Other Data: University of Edinburgh Roll of Honour - Portrait
mentioned in war diary 7 Coy 7/6/1917
CO of 7 Coy following death of Lt Fanshawe -war diary 3/8/1917
See: History of 25 Div - p 192

presumed dead 24/9/1918 - evidence of death provided by 2/Lt FO Rhodes, 25 MGC,(POW at Pforzheim) killed by a sniper bullet instantaneously,about 4.30pm 23/3/1918, S.W.of Monchies. My orderly saw him killed. Stated to be buried 100 yds from the Bapaume-Cambrai Road.
Statement by 16755 Pte P Riley 25 Bn - saw him shot through the neck, dying within two minutes.
Probate granted to mother £450/4/8d
University of Edinburgh
Narrative Nairn Academy and Allan Glen's School, Glasgow. Student of Science, 1912-14. OTC Engineers, April to October 1914, Cadet. 25th Battalion. Machine-Gun Corps, 2nd Lieutenant October 1914; Lieutenant December 1915. Reported killed in action on 23rd March 1918.

Red Cross Enquiry Card
Notice: Aberdeen Press & Journal 2/4/1919;

Other Notes: LAING, Lieutenant, JAMES MACDOUGALL, 25th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). 23rd March 1918. Age 24. Son of Annie Laing, of 30, Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh, and the late William Laing, of Nairn. Bay 10. Arras Memorial - Pas De Calais, France.;

Related National Archives files: WO339/24594;

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