Source: Son of Lieut-Col. Laing
Family Search: When Captain Alfred Benson Laing was born on 6 January 1890, in Windsor, Sandwich, Essex, Ontario, Canada, his father, Colonel Frederick Herbert Laing, was 33 and his mother, Edith Jane Davidson Benson, was 30. He married Nora Hammersley-Heenan on 30 September 1917, in Finchley, Barnet, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Essex, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1924. He died on 27 July 1976, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
London, Sept. 7.–The marriage will be celebrated shortly of Capt. Fred Benson Laing, of the Western Ontario Depot Unit, son of Lieut.-Col. Laing, Windsor, Ontario, to Miss Nora Hammersley Heenan, London.
Went to Trinity College: 1905″ LAING. Alfred Benson, Capt., A. Co., 18th Bn., 2nd C.E.F.
http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Trinity_College_School_1916-_January_1919_1000455236/13
Possibly a silent film actor.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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