CJ Laubscher
- School
- St Andrew's College, University of Oxford
- Fate
- Survived the war
From the book
Links of Long Standing
Rhodes Scholar CJ Laubscher was educated at St Andrews in Grahamstown. One of the first South Africans to join the Oxford University Air Squadron in 1935, he was called up after war was declared. By then a practicing Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar, he served in the RAF but ended the war in the SAAF.
Links of Long Standing
CJ Laubscher was one of the earliest “University Air Squadron” members. The few others, included Johannesburg born CW Goldsmith and PHV Wells who were educated in England, studied mining engineering and were members of the London University Air Squadron. Bishops educated Anthony Ellerton Ryan Fry, another member of that Air Squadron had completed his degree and working in a Denmark brewery when he was called up after war was declared. Cambridge University Air Squadron members MR Hill, IBDE Hay and NJM Barry, a long-time school contemporary of Oxford University Air Squadron member Percy Burton.