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Ivan Laing

Ivan Laing

Scottish field hockey player

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]

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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]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Ivan Laing". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Ivan Laing". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 2 August 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  3. [3]
    Football – Hawick v Langholm, Hawick News and Border Chronicle, 5 November 1909
  4. [4]
    Swimming, Southern Reporter, 9 October 1913
  5. [5]
    The Sportsman's Roll of Honour, The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 22 December 1917
  6. [6]
    "Laing, Ivan". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  7. [7]
    "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2015.


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