Brewer, Leighton
- Who
- WWI driver
- When
- WWI
- Where
- France
- Education
- Groton; Yale '20; Harvard '28.
Leighton "Laddie" Brewer was born on December 27, 1895 in New York to Effie Leighton Brown and George Emerson Brewer, a New York City surgeon.
He attended Groton School and graduated from Yale in 1920. In 1928 he received a M.A. in English Literature from Harvard.
During WWI he served as an ambulance driver with SSU 1 in 1915 and again in 1917, before joining the U.S. Air Service. He was one of the original members of the 13th Aero Squadron and returned to France in January 1918 for training at Issoudun.
After the war he taught at At Groton, Harvard and Radcliffe and authored several books, including Riders of the Sky.
He married Helen Hamlin about 1926.
In WWII he was chief of the Psychological Warfare in London.
Leighton Brewer died May 21, 1969.
His brother, George Emerson Brewer, Jr. (1899-1968) was a playwright.
WWI File
- Months of service
- 2, 1915
- Section(s)
- S.S.U. 1
- Home at time of enlistment
- New York City, USA
- Subsequent Service
- 1st Lt. U.S. Aviation
