Frederick Charles Victor Laws

He supplemented his income by taking photographs with his Kodak Bullseye box camera and selling them to his fellow soldiers.

He later applied for an assignment to the signalling section, mainly in order to obtain access to the unit's darkroom facilities, and also experimented with communicating with aircraft by heliograph.

[4] Laws returned to England in 1912, and in December "presented himself for a trade test at the headquarters of the Military Wing of the [just created] Royal Flying Corps, then located at South Farnborough."

With Lieutenant John Moore-Brabazon, another aviation pioneer, Laws built the L/B camera for special situations, introduced late in the war.

[4] By the end of the war, Laws was recognized as "the most experienced aerial photographic adviser in England and possibly the world.

[16] He served in the Directorate of Research at the Air Ministry from 1919 to 1923,[4] where he led the development of the F8 and F24 cameras, which became standard RAF equipment throughout the next war.

[19] In 1933–34, he was expedition leader of the aerial mapping of Western Australia for the H. Hemmings company, an enormous task using two DH.84 Dragons.

He served as managing director of Fairey Air Surveys and the Photo Finish Recording Company from 1947 to 1963.