Ivan Laing
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Ivan Laing (18 August 1885 – 30 November 1917) was a Scottish field hockey player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1] Born in Hawick, and a member of the Hawick Hockey Club, in 1908 he won the bronze medal as member of the Scotland team.[2] Laing also played rugby for Hawick RFC,[3] and swam for Hawick Amateur Swimming Club.[4]
He was educated at New College, Eastbourne, and at Verviers in Belgium.[5]
Laing was killed in action aged 32 during World War I, serving as a lieutenant with the Coldstream Guards at Metz-en-Couture. He was buried at the Metz-en-Couture Communal Cemetery nearby.[6][7]
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References
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- ↑ Football – Hawick v Langholm, Hawick News and Border Chronicle, 5 November 1909
- ↑ Swimming, Southern Reporter, 9 October 1913
- ↑ The Sportsman's Roll of Honour, The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 22 December 1917
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