Career
He was one of the small number of Royal Flying Corps generals in latter stages of World War I, serving as the Chief Staff Officer at the Reconstruction Finance Corporation"s Training Division and then as Director of Air Organisation. With the creation of the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918, Livingston was appointed Deputy Master-General of Personnel at the Air Ministry. He remained in this post until late November 1918 when Brigadier-General Francis Festing took over.
Livingston"s autobiography, Hot Air in Cold Blood, was published in 1933.