Tuesday 2nd October 2018 - Number 3264

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Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone, 

The names and dates are chiseled out on polished, marble stone. 

It reaches out to all who care, it is too late to mourn. 

You did not know that I exist, you died and I was born. 

Yet each of us, are cells of you, in flesh, in blood, in bone. 

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse not entirely our own.

Dear Ancestor 

The place you filled one hundred years ago, 

Spreads out amongst the ones you left, who would have loved you so.   

I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew. 

That someday, 

I would find this spot and come to visit you.

One Man’s War – A bit about the RAF

by

John Robert Laws 

1921-2008

Part 2

One Mans War - A bit more about the RAF

It was only a few weeks before I was posted to the EFTS at Peterborough to get my feet off the ground. It was an intensive course of lectures and flying and we had half a day a week of free time. 

Flying was exhilarating but learning was not easy and it took a few hours in the air to get over the problem of airsickness. There was no time to spare as unless one went solo in seven or eight hours one was out of flying training. 

Fortunately, the Tiger Moths which were the standard trainer of the day was a very safe aircraft and stood up to much abuse. Even so, I saw one pilot foolish enough to pull the wings off one, and have to join the Caterpillar Club. 

(The Caterpillar Club is an informal association of people who have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft. After authentication by the parachute maker, applicants receive a membership certificate and a distinctive lapel pin. The nationality of the person saving his life by parachute and ownership of the aircraft are not factors in determining qualification for membership; anybody who has saved his life by using a parachute after bailing out of a disabled aircraft is eligible).

I think the second solo flight was the most difficult, perhaps the lessons have been forgotten or perhaps they had never been really learnt. In all, we did about fifty hours at the EFTS. The system was overloaded of course. There weren’t even enough flying log books to go round and loose sheets had to be used. My elementary training lasted from 4^th August 1941 till 12 September 1941. How lucky it was summer.

Ten days later I was at the little airfield at Scone near Perth in Scotland doing my first flight on a course to become a flying instructor. One’s feet had hardly had time to touch the ground so to speak. Now we flew Magisters as well as Tiger Moths 

These were a more modern low wing monoplane but still quite well behaved though perhaps just a little less forgiving. We learnt the beginnings of aerobatics, though it was distinctly not encouraged to come into land from an inverted approach, as one instructor I flew with did. The Tiger had a gravity feed fuel system so the engine cut out if you stayed inverted. 

One of the more amusing exercises was restarting the engine in flight. Having stopped the prop by cutting off the fuel and going nose up to a stall one had to put the fuel on again and go into a vertical dive till the slipstream made the prop spin again and started the engine. Methods of instruction had been wholly standardised and one learned the standard ‘patter’ and suited actions to words.

Scone was pleasant airfield for this course. It was not too close to the mountains and there were plenty of easily recognisable natural features to help you find your way. Although it was approaching winter, it was not too cold and the main hazard was fog which could slide in quickly and cover the field. 

It was sometimes quite shallow with the trees sticking up through it would give you the shape of the field so that you knew where to go down through it to land. There was, of course, no radio in those aircraft and only a limited instrument panel, certainly not the standard blind flying panel. 

We didn’t do any instrument flying on this course, We had however done half a dozen hours on the Link trainer on the ab initio course, and did a further eight hours at Scone. The link was elementary flight simulator for instrument flying training, we did not do any night flying but we did the standard aerobatics of loops and rolls and became reasonably competent on the elementary aircraft with just another hundred hours of flying time done to finish the course just before Christmas 1941.        

To be continued tomorrow

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48,868 Folks - an increase of 20 this week 

16,054 Families - an increase of 5, 

116,594 Events - an increase of over 64, 

All in 10,980 Places

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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 1st OCTOBER

(Please note all spelling is British English)

Please also note we have several hundred LAWS & LAWES who were alive 29 September 1939 
so mail us with your inquiries registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk

Family Events

BIRTHS and BAPTISMS 

1753 - Baptism: Anne LAWES-2760, Stannington Northumberland England
1796 - Birth: Thomas LAWES-12863, Broad Chalke Wiltshire England

1827 - Christen: Henry LAWS-8271, Portsmouth Hampshire England

1861 - Birth: Martha LAWS-31702, Fincham Norfolk England

1876 - Birth: Joseph Burton LAWS-33699, Johnson City, Washington Co Tennessee United States
1895 - Birth: Charles LAWS-33842 (Caddy -Disabled) Acton Middlesex England
1897 - Birth: Alfred John LAWES-16615, (Cpl US Army) 
1898 - Birth: Dorothy E LAWS-22914, Venice California United States
1906 - Birth: Alvin Royce LAWS-46223, (Service Station Operator) Grayson TX United States
1910 - Birth: William L LAWS-44005, (Leather Worker) 
1910 - Birth: Burl LAWS-42204, Tennessee United States

MARRIAGES

1666 - Marriage: Edmund LAWES-1560 and Mary MILES-1561, Norwich Norfolk England

1800 - Marriage: James LAWS-50127 (Waterman)  and Mary ROBINSON-50128, St Ives Huntingdonshire England

1806 - Marriage: Thomas LAWS-16587 and Ann CLINGO-16588, Littleport Cambridgeshire England

1826 - Marriage: John Green (Master Mariner) LAWS-7235 and Harriett Hannah TRAICE-14272, Stepney Middlesex England

1849 - Marriage: William LAWS-19881 and Elizabeth KENT-19882, Stepney Middlesex England
1886 - Marriage: William John LAWS-4728 (Ag Lab) and Clara Eliza PARRISH-30381, 
1897 - Marriage: Thomas Frederick LAWES-28280 (Blacksmith)  and Emma MYLAND-28266, Hersham Surrey England
1898 - Marriage: James Sydney LAWS-29212  (Bricklayer -RAF Service Number: 289641) and Caroline BIGGINS-29214, Camberwell Surrey England
1912 - Marriage: Fred LARN-47259 (Clerk) and Hilda Alice LAWS-8448, Highgate Hill  Middlesex England

DEATHS and BURIALS

1818 - Burial: Christian LAWS-35545, Stepney Middlesex England

1913 - Death: John Richard LAWS-47384, Bendigo Victoria Australia
1914 - Death: Alfred Ernest LAWS-15558, (Grocer & Pork Butcher & Drapers Assistant)  Thetford Norfolk England
1915 - Birth: William Clarence LAWS-38394, Mounds, Pulaski, Illinois United States
1918 - Birth: Thomas Henry LAWS-29064, Hebburn Durham England
1950 - Death: Stanley Richard LAWES-42,  (Cycle & Motor Mechanic) Basingstoke Hampshire England

1956 - Burial: John Edgar LAWS-12923, (QX5922 Private in Australian Army) Southport Queensland Australia
1958 - Death: Lionel Major LAWS-31435, (Engineer) Willesden Middlesex England
1977 - Death: Florence Henrietta LAWS-15509, (General Servant) Chingford, Waltham Forest Essex England
1981 - Death: Mabel Ora LAWS-13388, Salmon Arm British Columbia Canada
1984 - Death: Albert LAWS-36275, Middlesbrough North Yorkshire England
2000 - Death: Sonja LAWES-36873, 
2002 - Death: Leonard Lawrence LAWS-21547, Hull East Yorkshire England

2015 - Death: Carl LAWS-49731, Toronto Ontario Canada

MISCELLANEOUS

1861 - Occupation: Thomas  LAWS-27163, (Steerage Steward)
1916 - Enlistment: Wallace Dryden G LAWS-15505, (RN F21458) (MasterTailor & Fabric Worker) 

OTHER BIRTHS and BAPTISMS

1881 - Birth: John Arthur Thomas FREEZER-22457, (Fish Dealer)  Gressenhall Norfolk England

1902 - Birth: Henrietta PEW-38411, Pennsylvania United States
1908 - Birth: Julius Edgar BRANCH-41465, North Carolina United States
1918 - Birth: Amos Manan MCELWEE-30459, Jackson, Guernsey, Ohio United States

 OTHER MARRIAGES 

1687 - Marriage: Samuel KITTSON-24097 and Mary HODGES-13849, Mildenhall Suffolk England

1771 - Marriage: Henry Frederick Duke of Cumberland and Strathern 4631 and Anne LUTTRELL-4630, Mayfair Middlesex England

1790 - Marriage: John CHARTERS-7136 and Elizabeth IREDALE-22002, Torpenhow Cumberland England

OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS

1995 - Death: Irene CHRISTIE-12562, 

2009 - Death: Margery B SIBERRY-31584, Leeds West Yorkshire England

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Lord, help me dig into the past and sift the sands of time. 

That I might find the roots that made this family tree of mine.

Lord, help me trace the ancient roads, on which our fathers trod.

Which led them through so many lands, to find our present sod.

that missing link between some name that ends the same as mine

Lord help me find an ancient book or dusty manuscript, 

that's safely hidden now away, in some forgotten crypt. 

Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts my soul when I can't find,

that missing link between some name, that ends the same as mine.

Sharon Nicola LAWS

2008 Olympics Cyclist

Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 

1974-2017

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