David Carnegie (RAF officer)

[2] He was to marry Kathleen F Pugson in Florida in August 1942 and make their home in the new house he had built just before the war at Dundarg Castle near Fraserburgh.

[3] He began his flying career in the Royal Naval Air Service in 1917 and until the armistice served as a pilot in North Sea patrols.

From September 1936 he served in the Air Ministry's War Training Department until taking command of RAF Wittering in April 1938.

[2] With the outbreak of war in September 1939 he was immediately posted to Air Staff Fighter Command then in 1941 to Washington D.C. as Director of British Flying Training, a part of the RAF delegation.

[2] Following some years as British Oxygen's Air Liaison Officer he was appointed director of Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire.