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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Laing James Bell
|Army number=4459394
|Rank=Pte
|Age=0
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry, No Enlistment Date, Trf Black Watch 1/2/1940, Posted 1 TS, Posted ? Bn Black Watch, Trf Royal Army Service Corps 13/9/45, W8/81/45, RASC/ACC P/59 BX5.
|Prisoner of War=9C, 48725
|Home address=73, Green's Place, South Shields
|Source table=1TS
}}

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 |Surname and forenames=Laing James Bell
 |Army number=4459394
-|Rank=Pte
+|Rank=Private.
 |Date of birth=14/1/1918
-|Age=0
+|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry 17/1/1940.  Posted ? 12th Battalion DLI.   Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France.  Taken Prisoner of War - date not recorded but probably on or shortly after 20/5/1940.  Repatriated to the UK.   Posted ? Battalion Black Watch.  Transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps 13/9/45, W8/81/45.  Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 23/8/1946.  RASC/ACC P/59 BX5.
-|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry 17/1/1940.  Posted ? 12th Bn DLI.   Trf Black Watch 1/2/1940, Posted 1 TS.  BEF.  Prisoner of War.   Posted ? Bn Black Watch, Trf Royal Army Service Corps 13/9/45, W8/81/45.  Class Z Army Reserve 23/8/1946.  RASC/ACC P/59 BX5.
+|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
-|Joined Brigade=Probably January 1940.
+|Age=77 at the time of his death.
-|Prisoner of War=9C, 48725
+|Company/Battery=HQ Company.
 |Died/Killed in action=Death registered July 1995, aged 77, in South Shields.
 |Home address=Son of James Henry and Ada Laing.  In 1947 he was living at 73, Green's Place, South Shields.  Married Margaret A. Stanley in South Shields Q4, 1947.
 |Source table=1TS
 }}

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 |Joined Brigade=Probably January 1940.
 |Prisoner of War=9C, 48725
-|Died/Killed in action=
+|Died/Killed in action=Death registered July 1995, aged 77, in South Shields.
-|Home address=73, Green's Place, South Shields
+|Home address=Son of James Henry and Ada Laing.  In 1947 he was living at 73, Green's Place, South Shields.  Married Margaret A. Stanley in South Shields Q4, 1947.
 |Source table=1TS
 }}