RNAS Anti-Aircraft Corps WW1
Just a simple request for help
I have a neat OHMS cover dated 16 DE 15 from the ANTI-AIRCRAFT CORPS / ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE sent from the Admiralty.
It is addressed to R.E.R. Dalwick Esq. at Dulwich
I am intrigued as to why the Admiralty was writing to him (no naval rank given). I looked the name up and found a Mr RER Dalwick was a renowned philatelist and had written books on Togo and Newfoundland airmails. He also appeared to be a dealer, from an advert I came across in a 1940 magazine.
HOWEVR I have a nagging feeling he WAS in the navy in WW1 possibly a Flight Lieutenant.
Any chance one of you may be able to confirm this?
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I have checked him out on Ancestry and it appears he was born in Germany (Kassel, Hesse) in 1889. His birth name was Rabodo and his father was Baron Werner von Dalwigk Schauenburg Hoof. His father came to the UK in about 1896 and applied for and was granted naturalisation in 1901. This included his son and presumably he changed his first name to Robert,
He married twice and also fathered a son Richard born in May 1915. Not sure if that date has any relevance to the cover.
Robert died in July 1971, aged 82
I have found no naval connection however.