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FROM THE 
FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES 
OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE
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LLOYD W. BERTAUD
Early Christofferson Aviator-Instructor

Lloyd W. Bertaud was born at Alameda, California, Septemer 20, 1896. His father died when he was two years old and he started to work at an early age to help his mother.

He attended local schools and became interested in flight when he saw Captain T. S. Baldwin fly his early airships. He later built a glider and made some hops with it, then in 1914 he started to work in the Christofferson Brothers shop as a mechanic for $20.00 a week. Accepting only $5.00 weekly for himself, he took the balance in lessons at the Christofferson School.

After learning to fly Bertaud started [[^]]engaged in[[^]] flying exhibitions and barnstorming work until World war I when he signed up as a civilian instructor with the Aviation Section, United States Army Signal Corps. During the period of World War I he served first at Ashburn Field, Chicago, Illinois, [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] later [[strikethrough]] served [[/strikethrough]] at Love, Bolling, Mitchel and McCook Fields [[strikethrough]] during the World War I period [[/strikethrough]] and was commissioned Lieutenant toward the end of his Government duty. In April 1919, Lieutenant Bertaud was in charge of aeronautics for the Victory Loan operations in various cities.

In August 1919, Bertaud was one of several contestants in the New York to Toronto, Canada, Air Race, flying a Curtiss JN-4D. In this event, which was 

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