Laing M.M.

Robert Anstruther Paton "Bobby" Laing was born in Edinburgh in October 1917. His father died before Bobby was two years old.

Fred Hartle said:

"On the 19th (July 1944 - Troarn) 'word got round that the Germans had asked for a cease-fire... both sides were allowed to pick up their wounded. L/Corp Bobby Laing was a stretcher bearer and put the Red Cross satchel on his head and, together with the German stretcher bearers, tended the wounded".

From Page 85 - Monty's Ironsides, by Patrick Delaforce.

Bobby received the Military Medal recommendation on the 23rd of July 1944 for his actions around Troarn.

His award was published in the Gazette in December 1944. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36850/supplement/5859

After the War, he married Maggie Childerly and they had two children.

His medals were issued in June 1950 and he was living in Edinburgh at the time.

Bobby died in October 1987 at the age of 70. His death was registered in Islington in London.