2nd Lt. Archibald Stanley Duffield Laidlaw. RAF

From Aviator's Certificate 1918

   

1899 May 8. Born Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

1901 census at Temperance Hotel, Deneron Street, Huntly, Aberdeenshire. His father is a Free Presbyterian Church Minister

Archibald S Laidlaw 40
Emily Laidlaw 33
Norman S Laidlaw 10
Hilda Lucy Laidlaw 6
Archibald S D Laidlaw 1
Robert R Laidlaw 1 Mo
Isabel R Duffield 34
Alexina Raeburn 21
Maggie Robson 18

1916 Apr - Oct 1917 A wireless telegraphist at Marconi, Strand, London

RNAS Record

RAF Record

1918 Jun 4. Gains Aviators Certificate no 7825

1918 Aug Commission confirmed

1920 Oct 20. Joined ADRIC with service no 792. Posted to G Coy

1921 May 28 to 11 Jun on Leave

1921 Jul 16 to 30 Jul on Leave

1922 Jan 19. Discharged on demobilisation of ADRIC

1933 Jul 16. Married in Berlin, Germany to Erica HELLER (b1913)

1934 Mar 10 He and his wife leave Hamburg by ship. He is a merchant

He then ran a babyware shop in Montrose for many years

1976 Apr 4. Died Dundee Angus Scotland

 

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