with the temporary rank of captain, and on 22 December 1916 he was appointed a Park Commander with the temporary rank of major, and served at the Headquarters of the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front until the armistice.

By the end of the war, Laws was recognized as "the most experienced aerial photographic adviser in England and possibly the world." On 1 January 1919 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his "...valuable services