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Description: | Frederick Laws was one of the pioneers of British military aerial photography during the First World War. A keen photographer, Laws transferred from the Army to the Royal Flying Corps in August 1912, shortly after its formation and was placed in charge of the photographic section of No 1 Squadron RFC. In 1913, he began taking aerial photographs from a range of aircraft including balloons, airships and man-carrying kites. Subjects included views of military establishments and topography in the Salisbury Plain area as well as surveys of the Solent and Isle of Wight defences (taken from a Bleriot monoplane). On the outbreak of war in 1914, Laws recommended that British military aerial photography should be concentrated into sections with one section for each flying wing, and that he should organise,equip and run them until they were capable of acting independently. This was agreed and Laws spent three months setting up aerial photography in each of the three RFC wings. Laws then returned to England in September 1915 and set up the Royal Flying Corps School of Photography at Farnborough, Hampshire. After receiving a commission, Laws became Commandant of the new school in November 1915. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Aerial recconnaisance Royal Air Force Royal Flying Corps Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force 1912-1918 Photography | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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