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Sarah Ann Laws nee' Fuller
1846-1924
My paternal Great Grandmother
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to all those who have borne our illustrious
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'One Man's War.'
One Mans War - A bit about the RAF – Part 3
On New Year’s Day 1942 I made my first flight as an instructor at Elmdon (Now Birmingham Airport) located between Birmingham and Coventry, you had to turn smartly left on takeoff to avoid running into cables of the Barrage Balloons flying over the city to prevent low-level air attack.
My stay at Elmdon lasted just six weeks during which time I did eighty-six hours as a Sergeant instructor before I promoted from Sergeant to Pilot Officer and had to be posted since you were not allowed to remain on the same unit as an officer where you had served as an NCO. This move was to Desford near Leicester where I stayed for the rest of my time as an instructor.
Desford was a good airfield for the job. It was on high ground north of the valley that lies between Leicester and Hinckley and there were no surrounding obstructions. There was a small factory alongside belonging to Reid & Sigrist making aircraft components and the field had been a flying club before the war. We had some forty or fifty Tiger Moths which flew most of the daylight hours and stood out in the open in all weather. There were a couple of hangers for maintenance and repairs and mechanical failure was virtually unknown. Accidents were rare and usually due to heavy landings when an instructor allowed a pupil to go too far before taking control.
We normally flew the same aircraft and there would be minor variations between the behaviour of one to another. I got caught out on one occasion when not using my regular aircraft, I allowed a pupil to land from a long gliding approach on a cold day. When he bounced it high in the air I opened the throttle wide to catch it, and nothing happened. Except that is we dropped like a brick, the undercarriage gave up and we slid along on our nose with the prop shattering in all directions till we turned over forwards and landed upside down hanging in our harness.
I hadn’t realised that the fuel mixture was set a fraction weaker than my usual machine and that the engine needed to be warmed up after the descent before landing. Black Mark!
By March 1944 the need for training more pilots was diminishing (having been involved in the training of up to 400 pilots,) instructors were being moved over to operational flying. I was posted to an Advanced Flying Unit at Banff where we flew Airspeed Oxfords a twin-engine low wing monoplane trainer. I did about sixty hours day flying and twenty hours night flying on this course, about half under instruction and half solo, finishing the course in the middle of May.
There was now a gap in flying from 15th May to 15th June. Sometime and somewhere in this gap crews were put together. A crowd of pilots, navigators, bomb aimers and wireless ops were got together for a few days and had to sort out fellow crew members with whom they could and would work and fly a tour of operations, somehow or other the gunners got tacked on later.
Then it was on to Lossiemouth where we flew old Vickers Wellingtons from the satellite field at Elgin. It was a lovely setting with the field almost ringed with mountains but not close enough to be threatening in the summer weather. Now that crews had been formed I spent the major part of my time in the company of Cliff and Frank and we shared a room at Blackfriars Haugh in Elgin. The house had been taken over as an annexe of the Lossiemouth officers mess. We had a large bedroom which had at some time earlier been made over to a bathroom which now contained three beds. Blackfriars was a large stone built house set in a garden beside the river Lossie.
I revisited Elgin some fifty years later and Blackfriars looked just the same, though the town of Elgin was unrecognisable.
The Wellington was one of the great aircraft of the RAF’s history. By this time they were pretty well out of operational service and those we flew were far from new. With their two big Pegasus engines giving their all, they lumbered off the grass field but once airborne they wanted to fly and handled nicely, without bomb load of course.
The big props whirled away a foot or two from one's left ear and the wingtips could be seen to flap as the flexible geodetic construction took up the strain. Night flying was a farce in the Highland summer, it never got really dark but there are some thirty-seven hours night flying shown in my log book in the seventy-seven hours flying time at Elgin.
Our cross country flying included a trip to Rockall out in the Atlantic; we didn’t spot it but couldn’t have been far out, as our landfall on return was spot on.
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 9th January
Family Events
1744 - Christen: Sarah LAWES-51, Amport Hampshire England
1775 - Christen: Anna Maria LAWES-31, Cliddesden Hampshire England
1806 - Birth: William Durrant LAWS-7925, (Master Mariner, widower & disabled by 1861)
Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1810 - Birth: Caroline LAWES-594, Saint Marylebone Middlesex England
1828 - Christen: Robert Green Edward LAWES-1001, (Hackney Cab Driver) Clapham Surrey England
1859 - Baptism: Robert Henry LAWS-7652, (Master Tailor) Fincham Norfolk England
1864 - Birth: Lena Alice LAWS-19393, California United States
1865 - Birth: Henry Willis LAWS-24895, (Day Clerk) Missouri United States
1872 - Birth: Robert Carmichael LAWS-4894, (Coal Miner) Blyth Northumberland England
1874 - Birth: Albert LAWS-3064, (Jeweller) South Shields Durham England
1875 - Birth: Harry LAWES-49070, (Gardener Grounds Man)
1882 - Birth: Zenos Marvin LAWS-13801, (Section Hand - Steam Railroad)
Johnson, Kane County, Utah United States
1883 - Birth: Florence Beatrice LAWS-8450, Swannington Norfolk England
1895 - Birth: Harry C LAWS-17119, Scotland
1897 - Birth: Charles Frederick LAWES-38285, (Police Constable)
1910 - Birth: Alfred George Charles LAWS-33817, (Radio Coms Engineer) Devonport Devonshire England
1914 - Birth: Charles M LAWS-16661, (TEC5 US Army)
1775 - Christen: Anna Maria LAWES-31, Cliddesden Hampshire England
1806 - Birth: William Durrant LAWS-7925, (Master Mariner, widower & disabled by 1861)
Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1810 - Birth: Caroline LAWES-594, Saint Marylebone Middlesex England
1828 - Christen: Robert Green Edward LAWES-1001, (Hackney Cab Driver) Clapham Surrey England
1859 - Baptism: Robert Henry LAWS-7652, (Master Tailor) Fincham Norfolk England
1864 - Birth: Lena Alice LAWS-19393, California United States
1865 - Birth: Henry Willis LAWS-24895, (Day Clerk) Missouri United States
1872 - Birth: Robert Carmichael LAWS-4894, (Coal Miner) Blyth Northumberland England
1874 - Birth: Albert LAWS-3064, (Jeweller) South Shields Durham England
1875 - Birth: Harry LAWES-49070, (Gardener Grounds Man)
1882 - Birth: Zenos Marvin LAWS-13801, (Section Hand - Steam Railroad)
Johnson, Kane County, Utah United States
1883 - Birth: Florence Beatrice LAWS-8450, Swannington Norfolk England
1895 - Birth: Harry C LAWS-17119, Scotland
1897 - Birth: Charles Frederick LAWES-38285, (Police Constable)
1910 - Birth: Alfred George Charles LAWS-33817, (Radio Coms Engineer) Devonport Devonshire England
1914 - Birth: Charles M LAWS-16661, (TEC5 US Army)
MARRIAGES
1797 - Marriage: Griffin LAWS-13457 and Sarah HEARN-13458, Heigham Norfolk England
1806 - Marriage: Charles LAWS-5195 and Sarah CLARK-5196, Norwich Norfolk England
1827 - Marriage: John LAWS-3393 (Traveller with Irish Linen) and Sarah WEBSTER-3394,
Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1834 - Marriage: John LAWS-6308 (Mole Catcher) and Mary LANGLEY-6309, Sedgeford Norfolk England
1853 - Marriage: Harry James LAWES-259 (Commercial Traveller) and Hariet Maria STRATFORD-258, Shoreditch Middlesex England
1867 - Marriage: W B WILLIAMS-30487 and Mary LAWS-30486, Weakley County, Tennessee United States
1892 - Marriage: Harry John S LAWS-12403 (Civil Service) and Eleanora Acton CHEWETT-12404,
Toronto Ontario Canada
1817 - Death: Benjamin LAWS-13794, Feltwell Norfolk England
1858 - Burial: James LAWES-12011, (a sailorman) Redcar North Yorkshire England
1864 - Death: Herbert LAWS-29383, Queensland Australia
1867 - Death: Dudley LAWS-11359, Carroll County, Tennessee United States
1871 - Death: Henry LAWS-5303, (Farmer 230 acres employing 10 men ) Kirton Suffolk England
1908 - Death: Charles Ernest LAWS-32192, Gateshead Durham England
1864 - Death: Herbert LAWS-29383, Queensland Australia
1867 - Death: Dudley LAWS-11359, Carroll County, Tennessee United States
1871 - Death: Henry LAWS-5303, (Farmer 230 acres employing 10 men ) Kirton Suffolk England
1908 - Death: Charles Ernest LAWS-32192, Gateshead Durham England
1921 - Death: W LAWS-22349, (ARMY Driver T/3837)
1921 - Death: Samuel Spahr LAWS-4404, (Reverend DD) Ashville North Carolina United States
1929 - Death: Melinda Windard LAWES-27695, Market Weston Suffolk England
1935 - Death: Emily Jane LAWS-7940, (Spinster) Bath Somerset England
1943 - Death: James LAWS-4881, (Inspector on Buses) Grimsby Lincolnshire England
but Resided at Cleethorpes Lincolnshire England
1965 - Death: Pauline LAWES-40187, Hammersmith Middlesex England
but resided at Maidenhead Berkshire England
1970 - Death: Robert James LAWS-36267, Santa Clara, California United States
1978 - Cremation: Burton Thomas LAWS-38610, (Electrical Engineer) Gornal, Dudley Worcestershire England
1983 - Death: Vivian LAWS-46597,
1989 - Death: James C LAWS-20438,
2002 - Death: Robert E LAWS-27644,
2003 - Burial: Frederick Richard Thomas Bennet LAWS-46726, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1941 - Enlistment: Kevin LAWS-12928, (Sapper Australian Army NX77684) Sydney New South Wales Australia
1951 - Residence: Daisy Millicent Hilda LAWES-39106, (Spinster & Needlewoman at Hospital,
formerly Dressmaker) Abbey Wood Kent England
OTHER BIRTHS
1762 - Christen: Ann BONE-10914, Beetley Norfolk England
1868 - Birth: Bertha WHITWORTH-9530, MBE. OBE Weston Underwood Buckinghamshire England
1887 - Birth: Margaret Clole MOLE-28773, Chobham Surrey England
1911 - Birth: William H DORAN-14323,
1914 - Birth: Arthur Benjamin CULLINGFORD-26715, Harwich Essex England
1916 - Birth: S LAWS-PARKES-18247,
OTHER MARRIAGES
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1889 - Death: John McLAREN-36159, (Reverend) Dull, Aberfeldy Perth Scotland
1934 - Death: Isabella DAVISON-6551, Hunwick Durham England
2007 - Death: Frances TREADWAY-25771, Hickory North Carolina United States
1934 - Death: Isabella DAVISON-6551, Hunwick Durham England
2007 - Death: Frances TREADWAY-25771, Hickory North Carolina United States
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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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