Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant A. A. Laing, Royal Engineers, late Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Lieut., R.E.) together with related Memorial Plaque (Arthur Alexander Laing), this last mounted for display in an old wooden frame, the first with officially corrected surname, extremely fine (4)

Arthur Alexander Laing, the son of Arthur and Emily Laing of Mariebonne, Wigan, was killed in action on 28 November 1917, aged 24 years, and is buried in the Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery, France. He originally enlisted in the Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry, was aferwards commissioned into the Royal Engineers, and went to France in May 1917; sold with an old portrait photograph.