This morning I read the
obituary of Lieutenant Gordon 'Curly' Pickard
The paragraph
He was not called up until New Year’s Day 1941, when he became a naval airman 2nd Class at HSM St Vincent in Gosport. After training in Trinidad he returned to London to attend the two-week “knife-and-fork course” for potential officers at Greenwich.
struck me as relevant to this thread.
I wonder what other far flung corners of Empire trained aircrew that have not been covered in this thread. I realise this was FAA training but did the R.A.F. offer a “knife-and-fork course”?
As an aside the R.A.A.F. had a training school here in Kalgoorlie and one of its hangars remains in use to this day by the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Also at Merredin (half way to Perth) was another school where now China Southern conduct all of their ab-initio training.