Arthur Joseph "Bob" Dewick

Confirmation of his involvement in Special Duties came with the discovery of an envelope addressed to him marked SECRET and containing the standard Stand Down letters sent to members of the network. It was found with another envelope addressed to HQ Auxiliary Units, c/o GPO Norwich, presumably the location of the Special Duties Office in July 1944. Another envelope was addressed to W.J Newman at Burnham Hall and contained a blank declaration form.

Bob Dewick was a fruit farmer who also had a number of other interests. He is well known in the world of entomology for his work at his farm on moths, with one species named for him as Dewick's Plusia, a moth, scientifically Plusia confusa, first found by him in 1951 on the farm. He had started his research when he first moved to Curry Farm in 1932. 

He also had an interest in VHF radio, operating a directional antenna after the war and correctly deduced the site and nature of the Government jamming of pirate radio. This makes it likely that he was the wireless operator for the Bradwell on Sea outstation.

The airfield at RAF Bradwell Bay would have been a likely site of interest for his team of observers. However it was the RAF that attacked the farm rather than the other way around, when in October 1944 a group of airmen stole 170 lbs of apples from his orchards. They pleaded guilty to the offence at Maldon County sessions

His father Joseph Forster Dewick, was the local ARP Warden and also lived at the farm.