Overview
Adrian Laws was born in 1912 in East Dereham, Norfolk. Little is known about his childhood, apart from his father who ran an emergency hospital in World War II. His daughter, Susan Mary Laws, was born two weeks after his death.
64 Squadron was also born in Norfolk, being formed in August 1916 at Sedgeford RFC station near Fakenham. In October 1917 they took their DH5's to the larger airfield at Bircham Newton, just ten miles down the road.
At the age of nineteen Laws enlisted in the ranks of the RAF. 64 Squadron was reformed at Heliopolis in 1935 during the Abyssinian crisis. Equipped with two-seater Demons they were to return to the UK within 15 months.
By late 1939 Laws was flying Blenheims out of Church Fenton in the Leconfield sector. War had started, yet nothing seemed to be happening on the wider front. By now an extremely accomplished pilot, Laws could not have been unhappy when 64 Squadron converted to the new Spitfire Mark I.
The Battle of Britain was about to begin in earnest.
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