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Sarah Ann Laws nee' Fuller
1846-1924
My paternal Great Grandmother
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'One Man's War.'
One Mans War - A bit about the RAF – Part 4
It was now mid-September and the crew and I went to Marston Moor in Yorkshire to convert on to Handley Page Halifax which were to be our operational aircraft. The Halifax was a good strong business like aircraft with four radial engines each giving 1600hp. It weighed some thirty tons when loaded. We spent just a month there doing some forty hours flying, including just eight hours night flying.
A fortnight later we were at Lissett and stated local flying from there on 5th November and our operational flying began 16th November with a daylight trip of fewer than five hours to Julich. By the end of November, we had done five ops from the second of which we were diverted to Carnaby on FIDO (Fog Intensive Dispersal Of) due to fog.
Carnaby was an emergency landing strip about three miles long, equipped with pipes down either side with a series of jets from which fuel could be sprayed and ignited. The effect was rather like descending into Hell, as we came down between two or three miles lines of raging fire.
December was quiet for us, just one trip to Cologne on the 30th. Training of various sorts went on all the time, gunnery, navigation and practice bombing.
I recall one occasion when one of our little practice bombs failed to release in the air but fell off with a mighty bang when we had taxied back to our dispersal and filled the aircraft with smoke. We got out in record time but there was no damage.
Far dodgier was an occasion when a 500lb bomb failed to come off its hook over the target in the wing bomb bay but fell out through the bomb bay doors when we landed. It was, of course, dark we only knew that a shower of sparks was following us down the runway. Fortunately, it could not explode as the safety pin was still in (it comes out on the way down) It got pretty hot with the friction however and the bods sent out to see what had happened didn’t stay long to examine it.
January 1945 saw us busy again with a couple of night trips and a daylight trip in fine weather, over a snow-covered Saar valley. It was all night trips in February, including a couple of over 8 hours duration. These ops do not separate themselves clearly in my memory, sometimes an isolated incident sticks in the mind like the flak nakedness of being lit up by searchlights and a quick corkscrew to get away or the sight of a thick curtain of flak over the target ahead of us. Generally one was too busy to worry much about either what was going on around us or our own safety.
'Window' might have to be dropped out, at particular points to confuse the radar and often we would turn in on to the target at the last moment having feinted a passing movement. There might be changes of height and then it was bomb doors open and a final straight run in at a steady speed with the bomb aimer giving corrections till the final “bombs away”, when I put the nose down a bit and the speed up with another course change. In the midst of a lot of aircraft about and no lights showing a good lookout was essential.
It was usual for the target to be lit up with flares and incendiaries, but if the ‘pathfinders’ were a minute late the main force had to circle over the target with considerable danger of collision. Inaccurate timings were fortunately rare.
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 10th January
Family Events
1819 - Baptism: Samuel LAWS-16967, (Ag Lab) Felthorpe Norfolk England
1836 - Baptism: George LAWS-5879, (Commercial Manager) London Middlesex England (St GHS)
1850 - Birth: Frances Jane Elizabeth LAWS-43505, Bengal India
1854 - Birth: William Henry LAWS-19578, Ripley Indiana United States
1863 - Birth: William John LAWS-5418, (Market Gardener) Swingfield Kent England England
1878 - Birth: John William LAWS-33923, (Commercial Clerk) East Hartburn Durham England
1878 - Birth: Frederick William LAWS-8437, (ARMY 17885) Feltwell Norfolk England
1879 - Birth: William Richard LAWS-41684, (Butler- Canadian Army Private) Thruxton Norfolk England
1886 - Birth: Charles Walter LAWES-24455, (Heavy Transport Worker HM Dockyard - RN 362363)
Havant Hampshire England
1887 - Birth: Arthur E LAWES-49252, (Railway Clerk)
1889 - Birth: Thomas H LAWS-44123,
1889 - Birth: Anthony Weedy LAWS-24149, (Coal Miner) Winlaton Durham England
1897 - Baptism: Robert LAWS-29049, Bedlington Northumberland England
1898 - Birth: Edith Lucy (Shop Asst) LAWS-46758,
1898 - Birth: Edith Lucy (Shop Assistant) LAWS-13586, Horsford Norfolk England
1902 - Birth: Percy Henry Mark LAWES-37189, (Piano Tuner) Marlborough Wiltshire England
1903 - Birth: William H O LAWES-50340, (Coach & Sign Writer)
1906 - Birth: Christina LAWES-39857, Wallsend Northumberland England
1915 - Birth: John Arnold LAWS-26563,
1917 - Birth: John LAWS-38673, (Colliery putter) High Spen Durham England
1836 - Baptism: George LAWS-5879, (Commercial Manager) London Middlesex England (St GHS)
1850 - Birth: Frances Jane Elizabeth LAWS-43505, Bengal India
1854 - Birth: William Henry LAWS-19578, Ripley Indiana United States
1863 - Birth: William John LAWS-5418, (Market Gardener) Swingfield Kent England England
1878 - Birth: John William LAWS-33923, (Commercial Clerk) East Hartburn Durham England
1878 - Birth: Frederick William LAWS-8437, (ARMY 17885) Feltwell Norfolk England
1879 - Birth: William Richard LAWS-41684, (Butler- Canadian Army Private) Thruxton Norfolk England
1886 - Birth: Charles Walter LAWES-24455, (Heavy Transport Worker HM Dockyard - RN 362363)
Havant Hampshire England
1887 - Birth: Arthur E LAWES-49252, (Railway Clerk)
1889 - Birth: Thomas H LAWS-44123,
1889 - Birth: Anthony Weedy LAWS-24149, (Coal Miner) Winlaton Durham England
1897 - Baptism: Robert LAWS-29049, Bedlington Northumberland England
1898 - Birth: Edith Lucy (Shop Asst) LAWS-46758,
1898 - Birth: Edith Lucy (Shop Assistant) LAWS-13586, Horsford Norfolk England
1902 - Birth: Percy Henry Mark LAWES-37189, (Piano Tuner) Marlborough Wiltshire England
1903 - Birth: William H O LAWES-50340, (Coach & Sign Writer)
1906 - Birth: Christina LAWES-39857, Wallsend Northumberland England
1915 - Birth: John Arnold LAWS-26563,
1917 - Birth: John LAWS-38673, (Colliery putter) High Spen Durham England
MARRIAGES
1775 - Marriage: Robert SHADFORTH-23928 and Alice LAWS-23929, West Hartlepool Durham England
1820 - Marriage: Thomas LAWES-12863 and Elizabeth LODGE-12864, Bishopstone Wiltshire England
1847 - Marriage: Joseph LAWS-22960 (Mariner Mate) and Elizabeth JONES-22962, (Spinster)
Liverpool Lancashire England
Liverpool Lancashire England
1892 - Marriage: John Thomas COATES-11126 and Isabella LAWS-4689, (Dressmaker) West Hartlepool Durham England
1925 - Marriage: Jesse Charles EASTON-40384 and Florence Jessie LAWES-11891, Croydon Surrey England
1931 - Marriage: George Edward LAWS-22277 (ARMY Lance Corporal 6081271) and Sarah GRIFFIN- 33228, Staines Middlesex England
1813 - Burial: Margaret LAWS-24301, Portsmouth Hampshire England
1885 - Burial: Thomas Wing LAWS-9282, (Ag lab Imate in Workhouse) March Cambridgeshire England
1917 - Death: Ovid S LAWS-20471, Los Angeles, California United States
1917 - Death: Ovid S LAWS-20471, Los Angeles, California United States
1930 - Death: Mary Jane LAWES-2730, (Widow) Hunslet West Yorkshire England
1933 - Death: Albert John LAWES-2730, (Gas Works Turner/Engineer) LAWS-4203, East Ham Essex England
1938 - Death: Arthur George LAWS-8619, Townsville Queensland Australia
1941 - Death: Frederick Charles LAWES-31915, Bristol Gloucestershire England
1949 - Death: Reginald LAWES-10684 (Commercial Traveller) , Penarth Glamorgan Wales
1951 - Death: Daisy Millicent Hilda LAWES-39106 (Spinster & Needlewoman at Hospital
(Formerly Dressmaker) , Plumstead Kent England
(Formerly Dressmaker) , Plumstead Kent England
1954 - Death: Ernest LAWES-39106 (PFC US Army) LAWES-16618,
1961 - Death: Eliza Louisa LAWES-27704, Hastings Sussex England
but resided at Saint Leonard's on Sea Sussex England
1972 - Death: Percy Sydney LAWS-8689, (Art Dealer/Photographer) Sheffield West Yorkshire England
1976 - Death: Ada Elizabeth (Bette) LAWS-46886, Leeds West Yorkshire England
1976 - Death: Reginald Charles LAWES-32445,(Managing Division Radio Operator? Radio Manager) Exeter Devonshire England
1991 - Burial: Patrick LAWS-7386, Bearsted Kent England
1996 - Death: Leonard Harwood William LAWES-36832, Chandlers Ford Hampshire England
2004 - Burial: Natalie Hope LAWS-13504, Horton Hill North Carolina United States
2007 - Death: Frances Treadway LAWS-24948, North Carolina United States
1919 - Residence: Arthur WARWICK-41321, (Coal Office Clerk) Kentish Town Middlesex England
1924 - Residence: Eveline Elsie LAWS-10476, Auckland New Zealand
1924 - Residence: Charlotte Emily ENGLAND-10431, Auckland New Zealand
1924 - Residence: Charles Henry LAWS-10430, (Reverend DD) Auckland New Zealand
1925 - Occupation: Henry Samuel LAWES-11433, (Tram & Omnibus Driver)
OTHER BIRTHS
1741 - Birth: Elizabeth Caroline HANOVER-22604, Saint James' Square, London
1758 - Birth: Aaron DAVIS-22495, Scotland
1790 - Birth: Hannah GREEDUS-49606, Bethnal Green Middlesex England
1801 - Birth: Thomas CHRISTMAS-3390, (Master Mariner) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1827 - Baptism: Ellen WHITE-7191, Islington Middlesex England
1871 - Birth: Deborah DYE-26792, Sunderland Durham England
1875 - Birth: Frances Ann WRIGHT-5520, (Elementary School Teacher Retired) Thorpe Saint Andrew Norfolk England
1881 - Birth: Emma Jane HOPKINS-37452, Brandon Suffolk England
1890 - Birth: Frances SPIVEY-3805,
1899 - Birth: Roy McIntosh BENSTED-11536,
1901 - Birth: Annie E HAMMANT-37097, Deptford Kent England
1901 - Birth: Violet Elizabeth SAVILLE-14295, Peckham Surrey England
1910 - Birth: Eileen M S BEALES-48781,
OTHER MARRIAGES
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1814 - Death: James FARROW-43355, Sidlesham Sussex England
1927 - Death: Celia Cator JODRELL-11135,
1927 - Death: Celia Cator JODRELL-11135,
1961 - Death: Helena Ramsey COX-230, Gordon, New South Wales Australia
1964 - Death: Kathleen Lillian BARRETT-14737, (Widow) Dunedin New Zealand
1966 - Death: Caroline WHITE-34190, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England
1980 - Death: Vivia Paternoster WHITE-29477,
1981 - Death: Elna AHL-23084, Sunderland Durham England
1983 - Death: Emory D WORKMAN-46759,
1990 - Death: Virgina Louise COLVIN-46594, Falls Church, Fairfax, Virginia, United States
2010 - Death: Joan VANCE-23095, Sale Victoria Australia
2012 - Burial: Dorethea PHILLIPS-41163, Orilla, Simcoe County Ontario Canada
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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
R I P
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