sentences:  Verulam had joined Royal Air Force Reserve of Officers in 1930 as a pilot, and he was injured in an aircraft accident in 1933.In 1937 he joined the Auxiliary Air Force and served in Coastal Command during World War II as a pilot.He was elected to the House of Commons as MP for St Albans at the by-election in 1943, but was defeated at the 1945 general election by the Labour candidate Cyril Dumpleton.