P+TJ - building on Gainesy's comments on this:
P+TJ was orignally a command, based in Jerusalem, in the interwar years. It was reduced to Grp status in 1929. On 11 Nov 1941, it was part of Middle East Command, with two wings - numbers 259 and 263. By October 1942, the sources I've looked at suggest that it had been disbanded/renamed hidden away somewhere I've not been bright enough to discover in the wiring diagrams. It could also have become a subordinate element of something else, still known as HQ P+TJ.
If this is correct date-wise, then it would suggest that 2PDC could be either a 2PDC in theatre rather than at Wilmslow (I think that Gainesy's right on this, though), or it was his transit point before moving onto another posting. If P+TJ existed at the end of the war (albeit hidden away under some acronym I've not decoded), the 2PDC could be his demob point. Obviously, not knowning the dates and full career progressin means you're getting speculation, but hope it helps!
[ 17 October 2001: Message edited by: Archimedes ]