Dalwood Drive – Named after Harold Pettman Dalwood (1893- 1931). Dalwood was an indent merchant from Christchurch. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on 26 November 1917. In the Wigram Aerodrome subdivision by Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd where the street names are either of aircraft or taken from the list of the first 100 students at the Flight School established by Sir Henry Wigram in 1917. Named in 2010.A small amount of information from the library website and I seriously sidetracked on researching this man. I checked Ancestry website and Papers Past. The information from Great Britain Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificate has his address as C/- R S Badger, 187 Manchester St, Christchurch. he was born in Sydney, NSW on 12th November 1893 and was an indent merchant and he trained in a Caudron Biplane on 26th November 1917. I found him living at 28 Kipling St in Addington in 1916.He went to England with his parents Albert and Julia Dalwood in 1905 as a school boy. He must have gone back to England at some stage as he got married there in 1919 and this is where it gets confusing. I found a marriage record of him marrying Bonita M Puri in April 1919 but his divorce details from 1922 has him married to someone called Gretchen who he married in England in 1919. He claimed that he bought her out to New Zealand where she had an affair so he stopped sending her money. She is supposed have spend one night in a hotel in Sydney with a man which she denied. It is possible that Bonita and Gretchen are the same person but I couldn’t find any other information about them.In 1923 he married Agnes Pyman and in 1928 they were both living in Auckland but at separate addresses. He died in Sydney in 1931 and there is no mention of him having ever been married. Agnes continued living in Auckland and described herself as a widow.I would love to know how he died as I suspect there could be a wee mystery there. The death notice was extremely brief.This street has houses built from 2011 to 2013 and nothing stood out for me. There was one house that a weird mixture of stone and glass. Part of the street is bordered by Te Kuhu Park.
Found information about his death in an Australian newspaper.
DEATH OF MR. H. P. DALWOOD.Mr. Harold Pettman Dalwood, of Macleay-street, Potts Point, died at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on Monday.Mr. Dalwood entered the hospital some weeks ago for treatment for an internal complaint.The treatment made him feverish, and last Friday he suddenly left his bed, ran across the room, and jumped from a balcony. He was badly injured, and, in his weakened condition, the injuries led to his death.Mr. H. P. Dalwood was the son of Mr. A.E. Dalwood, who founded the Dalwood RestHome, Balgowlah.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 