Participant Info

Surname

Laing

First Name

John

Initial

Service Number

1697

Rank

sergeant

Unit Served

53rd Battalion

Service Record

Egypt, France

Enlistment Date

1916

Enlistment Month

February 16

Embarkation Year

1916

Embarkation Month

April 14

Date of Death

Month of Death

Death Category

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 115, image page 116

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

Charles and Mary Laing

Parental Address

Dundee

Parental City

Scotland

Parental State

Other

Notes

born at Dundee, Scotland, April 2, 1880, educated Dundee Board School, gardener, enlisted February 15, 1916, embarked April 14, 1916. War service: Egypt, France (arrived June 1917, contracted trench fever August 1917), invalided to Clearing Station for fi