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Lord, help me dig into the past and sift the sands of timethat I might find the roots that madethis family tree of mine
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 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.
Henry Lawes1595-1662
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One Man’s War – A bit about the RAF
Henry Lawes
1595-1662
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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 less 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. 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 wee 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 ‘pathfinder’. force was a minute late and very embarrassing if then the main force had to circle over the target with 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.
More tomorrow
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 less 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. 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 wee 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 ‘pathfinder’. force was a minute late and very embarrassing if then the main force had to circle over the target with 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.
More tomorrow
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Extracted from our Database today
Extracted from our Database today
Wednesday 9th September 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1716 - Christen: James LAWES-2013, Portsmouth Hampshire England
1787 - Death: Mary Anne or Anne EASTMURE-3317, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1793 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-5465 and Ann FOX-5466, Norwich Norfolk England
1804 - Birth: Catherine BLENKINSOPP-31939, 1837 - Birth: Benjamin Palmer LAWS-3306, (Coachmaker) Costessey Norfolk England
1838 - Birth: Louis LAWS-39648, North Carolina United States1846 - Marriage: Alfred LAWS-4179 (Shopkeeper & Beerhouse) and Sarah WILSON-4180, Stradbroke Suffolk England1855 - Baptism: George Charles LAWS-8493, Norwich Norfolk England1856 - Occupation: Edward LAWS-26603, (Steward on Ship "TELEGRAPH" 1869 - Birth: Edmund GRIMANI-31657, (Scenic Artist) Deptford Kent England1871 - Birth: Treen Hunt LAWES-3105, (Cab Driver & Furniture Dealer) 1872 - Birth: Frederick W LAWES-458, (Bricklayer) Chertsey Surrey England1875 - Death: William WESTLAKE-22663, Mile End Middlesex England1881 - Birth: Aaron LAWS-4214, (Ag Lab) Littleport Cambridgeshire England
1882 - Death: William BOGGAN-7917, (Miner) Ballarat Victoria Australia1887 - Birth: Hyden Mary Sophia LAWS-29543, Welney Cambridgeshire England1888 - Birth: Herbert Miller LAWS-11656, (Dock Lab & ARMY Private 4348537, a former Ag Lab) Kingston Upon Hull East Yorkshire England
1890 - Birth: Elsie Louisa BENNETT-39827, St Pancras Middlesex England1890 - Birth: Eva Emily LAWS-13614,(Seamstress) Hilgay Norfolk England
1891 - Death: John Williams LAWS-4474, (Retired Grocer/Esq) Brixton Surrey England1892 - Birth: Mahala F GENTRY-48031, Armada, Crawford Arkansas United States1896 - Birth: Gordon William LAWES-37507, 1896 - Birth: Ivy B BARNET-32684, Greenwich Kent England
1897 - Birth: Reginald LAWES-48695, (Fancy feather Packer) 1898 - Birth: John Claude Bennett LAWES-225, Magill, Norwood South Australia Australia1899 - Burial: Samuel LAWS-23623, (Lab)(Widower) Litcham Norfolk England
1901 - Birth: Elsie LAWES-47172, (Cafe Manageress) 1904 - Birth: Stanley F BRIGHAM-46562, (TGWU Trade Union Officer) 1906 - Birth: Colin Chamberlain (LAWS-12603 Australian Army) , Brisbane, Queensland Australia1909 - Birth: Leslie Charles LAWS-34059, (Milkman) Chelsea Middlesex England
1911 - Birth: Jacob Albie SIMMONS-32548, 1911 - Birth: Leo Vernon LAWS-16381, (PVT US Army)1912 - Birth: Anna M GOOCH-49414, Smallburgh Norfolk England1912 - Birth: Arthur Robert LAWS-41559,(Ag Lab) 1914 - Birth: Edward G LAWS-43445, (Brewery Fermentor) 1914 - Birth: Robert William LAWS-31185, 1917 - Birth: Evelyn H LAWS-42692, (Shorthand Typist) 1921 - Death: Fremont LAWS-24598, Hammond, Lake County, Indiana United States1926 - Marriage: Richard TEMPLE-49692 (Land Officer in Sierra Leone) and Marjorie V Noel LAWES-25629, Marylebone Middlesex England1926 - Birth: Gwendoline Alice Florence LAWES-12545, Winchester Hampshire England
1929 - Marriage: Ernest William LAWS-15540 (Fireman NFS) and Maud Kathleen WATTS-16830, Ipswich Suffolk England
1931 - Burial: Richard Allyn LAWS-15540S-51485, Holly, Oakland County Michigan United States1931 - Death: Richard Allyn LAWS-51485, 1932 - Immigration: Millicent Grace Withers LAWS-16976, Tilbury Essex England1936 - Death: Ralph LAWS-20098, 1937 - Death: Percy Robert George LAWES-1214, (RN 168394 CPO / Coastguard) Clifton North Yorkshire but burial Scarborough North Yorkshire England1939 - Marriage: Edwin Kingsley LAWS-16906 (Reverend) and Kirstie DUNDAS- 30815, 1939 - Residence: Olive Mary BROTHERTON-47275, Darley North Yorkshire England1942 - Military: Jake M LAWS-16315, (PVT US Army) 1947 - Birth: John CLEVELEY-3072, Smethwick Worstershire England1950 - Death: Tom LAWS-35721, (Railway Platelayer) Yaxley Huntingdonshire England1951 - Death: Annie DOBSON-31559, Ponteland Northumberland England
1955 - Death: Alma Amelia KIPLING-38009, Rochford Essex England But resident Hadeigh Essex England1958 - Death: Almeda Parker LAWS-29765, Saanich British Columbia Canada1959 - Death: Gilbert P LAWS-16336, (Sgt US Army) 1976 - Death: Miriam LAWES-44607, Cardiff Glamorgan Wales1977 - Death: Steven Ray LAWS-29810, Lake Cumberland, Pulaski County, Kentucky United States1982 - Death: Lily Maria LAWES-1248, Ingestre Staffordshire England1985 - Death: Elizabeth Mary LAWS-14223, Croydon Park, New South Wales Australia1991 - Death: Betty Jean LAWS-41892, 1996 - Death: Duane Monroe LAWS-45711 (PFC US Army Korea) , Reno, Washoe County Nevada but Burial Fernley, Lyon County, Nevada United States2003 - Residence: Judy LAWS-12787, Pennsylvania United States2016 - Cremation: Henry Freeman LAWS-42143, Milngarvie Dunbartonshire Scotland
MORE TOMORROW
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Dear Ancestor,-Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and aloneThe names and dates are chiselled out on polished marble stone
Wednesday 9th September 2020
We don't show births after 1920 or marriages after 1940
(GDPR 2018)
(After these dates apply to the registrar)
FAMILY EVENTS
1716 - Christen: James LAWES-2013, Portsmouth Hampshire England
1787 - Death: Mary Anne or Anne EASTMURE-3317, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1793 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-5465 and Ann FOX-5466, Norwich Norfolk England
1804 - Birth: Catherine BLENKINSOPP-31939,
1837 - Birth: Benjamin Palmer LAWS-3306, (Coachmaker) Costessey Norfolk England
1838 - Birth: Louis LAWS-39648, North Carolina United States
1846 - Marriage: Alfred LAWS-4179 (Shopkeeper & Beerhouse) and
Sarah WILSON-4180, Stradbroke Suffolk England
1855 - Baptism: George Charles LAWS-8493, Norwich Norfolk England
1856 - Occupation: Edward LAWS-26603, (Steward on Ship "TELEGRAPH"
1869 - Birth: Edmund GRIMANI-31657, (Scenic Artist) Deptford Kent England
1871 - Birth: Treen Hunt LAWES-3105, (Cab Driver & Furniture Dealer)
1872 - Birth: Frederick W LAWES-458, (Bricklayer) Chertsey Surrey England
1875 - Death: William WESTLAKE-22663, Mile End Middlesex England
1881 - Birth: Aaron LAWS-4214, (Ag Lab) Littleport Cambridgeshire England
1882 - Death: William BOGGAN-7917, (Miner) Ballarat Victoria Australia
1887 - Birth: Hyden Mary Sophia LAWS-29543, Welney Cambridgeshire England
1888 - Birth: Herbert Miller LAWS-11656, (Dock Lab & ARMY Private 4348537,
a former Ag Lab) Kingston Upon Hull East Yorkshire England
1890 - Birth: Elsie Louisa BENNETT-39827, St Pancras Middlesex England
1890 - Birth: Eva Emily LAWS-13614,(Seamstress) Hilgay Norfolk England
1891 - Death: John Williams LAWS-4474, (Retired Grocer/Esq) Brixton Surrey England
1892 - Birth: Mahala F GENTRY-48031, Armada, Crawford Arkansas
United States
1896 - Birth: Gordon William LAWES-37507,
1896 - Birth: Ivy B BARNET-32684, Greenwich Kent England
1897 - Birth: Reginald LAWES-48695, (Fancy feather Packer)
1898 - Birth: John Claude Bennett LAWES-225, Magill, Norwood South Australia Australia
1899 - Burial: Samuel LAWS-23623, (Lab)(Widower) Litcham Norfolk England
1901 - Birth: Elsie LAWES-47172, (Cafe Manageress)
1904 - Birth: Stanley F BRIGHAM-46562, (TGWU Trade Union Officer)
1906 - Birth: Colin Chamberlain (LAWS-12603 Australian Army) , Brisbane, Queensland Australia
1909 - Birth: Leslie Charles LAWS-34059, (Milkman) Chelsea Middlesex England
1911 - Birth: Jacob Albie SIMMONS-32548,
1911 - Birth: Leo Vernon LAWS-16381, (PVT US Army)
1912 - Birth: Anna M GOOCH-49414, Smallburgh Norfolk England
1912 - Birth: Arthur Robert LAWS-41559,(Ag Lab)
1914 - Birth: Edward G LAWS-43445, (Brewery Fermentor)
1914 - Birth: Robert William LAWS-31185,
1917 - Birth: Evelyn H LAWS-42692, (Shorthand Typist)
1921 - Death: Fremont LAWS-24598, Hammond, Lake County, Indiana
United States
1926 - Marriage: Richard TEMPLE-49692 (Land Officer in Sierra Leone)
and Marjorie V Noel LAWES-25629, Marylebone Middlesex England
1926 - Birth: Gwendoline Alice Florence LAWES-12545, Winchester Hampshire England
1929 - Marriage: Ernest William LAWS-15540 (Fireman NFS)
and Maud Kathleen WATTS-16830, Ipswich Suffolk England
1931 - Burial: Richard Allyn LAWS-15540S-51485, Holly, Oakland County Michigan United States
1931 - Death: Richard Allyn LAWS-51485,
1932 - Immigration: Millicent Grace Withers LAWS-16976, Tilbury Essex England
1936 - Death: Ralph LAWS-20098,
1937 - Death: Percy Robert George LAWES-1214, (RN 168394 CPO / Coastguard) Clifton North Yorkshire but burial Scarborough North Yorkshire England
1939 - Marriage: Edwin Kingsley LAWS-16906 (Reverend) and Kirstie DUNDAS- 30815,
1939 - Residence: Olive Mary BROTHERTON-47275, Darley North Yorkshire England
1942 - Military: Jake M LAWS-16315, (PVT US Army)
1947 - Birth: John CLEVELEY-3072, Smethwick Worstershire England
1950 - Death: Tom LAWS-35721, (Railway Platelayer) Yaxley Huntingdonshire England
1951 - Death: Annie DOBSON-31559, Ponteland Northumberland England
1955 - Death: Alma Amelia KIPLING-38009, Rochford Essex England
But resident Hadeigh Essex England
1958 - Death: Almeda Parker LAWS-29765, Saanich British Columbia Canada
1959 - Death: Gilbert P LAWS-16336, (Sgt US Army)
1976 - Death: Miriam LAWES-44607, Cardiff Glamorgan Wales
1977 - Death: Steven Ray LAWS-29810, Lake Cumberland, Pulaski County, Kentucky United States
1982 - Death: Lily Maria LAWES-1248, Ingestre Staffordshire England
1985 - Death: Elizabeth Mary LAWS-14223, Croydon Park, New South Wales Australia
1991 - Death: Betty Jean LAWS-41892,
1996 - Death: Duane Monroe LAWS-45711 (PFC US Army Korea) , Reno, Washoe County Nevada but Burial Fernley, Lyon County, Nevada United States
2003 - Residence: Judy LAWS-12787, Pennsylvania United States
2016 - Cremation: Henry Freeman LAWS-42143, Milngarvie Dunbartonshire Scotland
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Dear Ancestor,-
Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone
It reaches out to all who care, it is too late to mournYou did not know that I exist, you died and I was bornYet each of us are cells of you, in flesh, in blood, in bone.Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own
Dear Ancestor, The place you filled one hundred years agoSpreads out amongst the ones you left who would have loved you so,I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knewThat someday I would find this spot and come to visit you.
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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 entirely not 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
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Barque 'Woolhampton'
This is Robert Henry's Wife Sarah Ann Laws, formerly FullerMy paternal Great Grandmother1846-1924
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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1881
Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton'
my paternal Great Grandfather
Barque 'Woolhampton'
This is Robert Henry's Wife
Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller
My paternal Great Grandmother
1846-1924
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2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc
1974-2017
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