Why no Royal Air Force in the Great War?

Question

I can understand using The Royal Flying Corps up to Mar 1918, but then The Royal Air Force was formed. Anyone who served from Mar to Nov 1918 and was involved with flying would have been in the RAF. Why then should Royal Air Force, World War I be a discontinued category?

Answer 1

Find My Past ,if you have any names,they have documentation on them,

Also The National Archives ,Gov.UK. If you need help give me names,and i

will look.

Comments

Thanks for the offer, but it was just a question about the principle.

My great-grandfather joined the RFC in 1916 and was transfered to the RAF on formation in 1918. In his profile I had RAF and was asked to change it to RFC as RAF WW1 has been discontinued.

Answer 2

Could have been deleted for a couple reasons.  The UK project is not really on board with the naming standards and uses single categories for its military for all time. It also could have been done to keep all the records in the Royal Flying Corps and not creating duplicates for all records that were pre and post Mar 1918.

Since the RFC was involved in the conflict from its beginning in 1914, there would be a lot of records that would not be included in RAF post Mar 1918, i.e. people whose enlistments were up, medical discharged, KIA, MIA, etc.

I recreated the category.