LAIDLAW, Ian Douglas
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Rank:
Captain
Unit / Base:
40RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Died :
Saturday, June 3, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
21
Cemetery/Memorial:
Captain Ian Laidlaw was killed in action during operations on the enemy held island of Brac, Yugoslavia. Son of Douglas and Edith Laidlaw, of Knockholt, Kent.
Second Lieutenant Ian Douglas Laidlaw was commissioned 12 August 1942 and joined 40RM Commando 25 August 1942.
October 1943 Lieutenant Laidlaw, 'Y' Troop, wounded during operations at Termoli.
March 1944, Captain Laidlaw, 'Y' Troop, wounded again during operations at Anzio.
Sources
CWGC.
40RM Commando War Diary.
Report on Anzio by Lieut. Colonel Manners OC 40RM.
J.C. Beadle, 'The Light Blue Lanyard' pp.26, 62, 77, 88, 89, 90, 108.
Notes
The CWGC record his rank as Lieutenant which would be his war substantive rank. The War Diary and Lt.Col. Manners, Commanding 40RM Commando, record his rank as Captain.
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