Wednesday 26th February 2020 - Number 5979

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Robert Henry Laws

1828-1881

Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton' 

my paternal Great Grandfather

&

This is Robert Henry's Wife 

Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller

My paternal Great Grandmother

1846-1924

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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. 

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.

Extracted from our database today 27th February

1693 - Will Proved: Leonard MATON-11794,
1745 - Birth: John LAWS-13523, Lakenheath Suffolk England
1745 - Christen: Mary LAWS-3871, Stoke Dameral Devonshire England
1781 - Birth: Thomas SCRIVENER-42316, Bermondsey Surrey England
1806 - Marriage: Pantar LAWS-24621 and Mary Ann MOORE-24622, 
1838 - Burial: William CHARTERS-13869, (Farmer) 
           (My wife's 4th Great Grand Uncle)
1841 - Marriage: Thomas GREEN-29282 (Ag Lab) and Mary LAWS-29281,                     Layer de la Haye Colchester Essex England
1857 - Death: Agnes Cant GORDON-33815, 
1868 - Marriage: Alexander LAWS-39357 (Joiner)  and Sarah Ann WATSON-                 2912, Stockton-On-Tees Durham England
1874 - Birth: Blanche Edith LAWS-6880, Battersea Surrey England
1875 - Birth: Albert LAWES-43844, (Commission Agent)
1875 - Birth: John William LAWS-8579, (Driver)  Newcastle upon Tyne                             Northumberland England

1879 - Birth: Jane MARTIN-44964, Tottenham Middlesex England
1881 - Birth: Harold LAWS-2937, (Retired Surveyor)  Ryton Durham England
1882 - Birth: Annie Mary LAWS-28860, North Farm, Houghton and Close House             Township, Northumberland England
1887 - Marriage: Albert Charles NOKES-36647 (Pianoforte Maker)  and
           Harriett LAWS-14535, Hoxton Middlesex England
1890 - Will Proved: Mary LAWES-9474, 
1891 - Birth: Lily Martha F (Schoolteacher) Marnhull Dorset England
1893 - Death: Emmaline HARKER-48148, Newton, Jasper County, Illinois,                       United States
1894 - Death: Joseph LAWS-7176, (Miner / Unmarried) Wingate Durham                         England
1897 - Death: Dorothy Ann OLIVER-3775, Durham Durham England

1899 - Death: George Dewey LAWS-22494, Burkett, Coleman County Texas                     United States
1900 - Birth: Redvers Roberts Henry LAWS-15411, (Civil Servant Higher                         Chemist Officer) (MBE 1955)  Fincham Norfolk England

1900 - Death: Mary LAWS-8551, 
1902 - Residence: Elizabeth Emma LAWS-32009, (Widow of Independent                         Means)  Hove Sussex England
1903 - Birth: Charles Arthur LAWES-44603, (Blacksmiths Hammerman in
           Ship Yard)  Cardiff Glamorgan Wales
1903 - Birth: Frances J LAWS-43718, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland                   England
1903 - Birth: Violet Janet LAWS-37991, (Widow)
1911 - Death: David C LAWS-24326, (Retired Bookkeeper)  Saint Louis,
           Missouri United States
1914 - Birth: James FERGUSON-27393, Silksworth Durham England
1915 - Birth: Frank W LAWS-42546, 
1915 - Birth: Ada May LAWS-35278, 
1915 - Will  Dated: Samuel LAWS-5543, (Railway Signalman)
1917 - Enlistment: George Henry LAWS-28216, (ARMY Cpl  12305) 
           Durban South Africa
1918 - Death: David LAWS-50328, 
1918 - Birth: Charles LAWS-34905, 
1920 - Birth: Gerald Joseph LAWS-22582, (Clerk)  South Yarra Victoria                           Australia
1921 - Death: Martha E WYNN-35213, Ohio County, Kentucky United States
1931 - Burial: Henderson LAWS-16342, (PVT US Army)  Leavenworth National             Cemetery Kansas Plot 36, R815
1936 - Death: Mabel Gertrude COLLINS-7075, Bournemouth Hampshire                        England

1941 - Death: Percy Jack LAWS-40524, (Civilian War Dead)
          Yate Gloucestershire, England but burial at Sodbury Gloucestershire                      England after an air-raid on aircraft factory.
1957 - Miscellaneous: Clara Emily MORTICE-17165, (Step-Dau & Shirtmaker)
1961 - Death: Harry REED-2587, Aylsham Norfolk England
1963 - Death: Philip Sidney PALMER-44087, Buckhurst Hill Essex England
1963 - Death: Sybil Florence Lucy LAWES-33844, (Clerk) 
1966 - Death: Henry John LAWES-38639, (Master Window Cleaner Also
           Trained Propeller Shaper) Weston Super Mare Somerset England

1966 - Death: May Louisa LAWS-38275, Holloway Middlesex England
1967 - Death: Florence Adelaide LAWS-35148, 
1979 - Admon: Alan LAWS-5834, (Prison Officer Chief Eng)  Ipswich Suffolk                   England

1979 - Death: Margaret Anne LAWES-22563, Grand Forks, British Columbia                 Canada
1983 - Death: Sarah Helena May LEACH-11308, Queensland Australia
1992 - Death: William Henry LAWS-50035, Fayetteville, Washington County,                   Arkansas, USA
1997 - Death: Gwendoline Amy NOBLE-24198, Freemantle Western Australia
2007 - Cremation: Muriel May LAWS-25747,  (Widow) Westerleigh                                   Gloucestershire England
2012 - Death: Yvonne Valda LAWS-41704, 
2015 - Miscellaneous: Basil LAWES-40528, 

MORE TOMORROW

One Man’s War – A bit about the RAF

by

John Robert Laws 

1921-2008

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 was 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 started 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, the second of which, we were diverted to Carnaby on FIDO (Fog Intensive Dispersal Of) due to fog. 

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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 a 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 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' (Shredded tin-foil ed.) 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 ‘pathfinder force' was a minute late and very embarrassing if they the main force had to circle over the target with the considerable danger of collision. Inaccurate timings were fortunately rare.   

In daylight, the squadron flew as a ‘gaggle’ led by a Vic formation of three crews with some experience. In the air, squadrons were led by flight lieutenants and on the ground by squadron leaders. The leading Vic formed an aiming point for the flak of course and it was while leading the squadron in daylight we suffered our only hit from flak. 

This put one engine out of action and forced us to hand over to number two and to creep back at a lower level on the remaining three engines which brought us safely home a little behind the rest. When you land on three engines everyone turns out to see the fun and we were greeted with ‘we didn’t expect to see you back’.

Our operational flying continued through February, March and April, the last trip being to Wangarooge on 25th April, and the last op the squadron did just before the German surrender.

After that it was a quick change, we did trips bomb dumping and some navigational practice including a trip over Hamburg and Kiel with one or two ground-based colleagues from the squadron as passengers to see that it was all for real. Then we started taking aircraft over to Ireland for storage or disposal, so my last trip in a ‘Halifax’ was one hour to High Ercall on 22 June 1945.

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Sharon Nicola LAWS

2008 Olympics Cyclist

Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc 

1974-2017

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