Xercules,
This is what I make of it. Most of it is straightforward enough. (My comment in Capitals).
Unit From: (blank) unit to: No 3 RC Padgate date:5/10/40
THIS WOULD BE FOR INITIAL SELECTION BOARD, ACCEPTED, & ENLISTED AS AC2 (U/T PILOT/AIR OBSERVER).
Unit From: No 3 RC Padgate unit to: Reserve date: 6/10/40
SENT HOME NEXT DAY ON DEFERRED SERVICE.
Unit From: Reserve unit to: No 9 RW Stratford on Avon date: 21/12/40
CALLED IN FROM DEFERRED SERVICE, TWO WEEKS FROM 21/12/40 TO 4/1/41. WOULD BE AT RECEPTION CENTRE ("WING") STRATFORD.
6 ITW - 4/1/41 (a course photograph showing this was at Aberystwyth)
NORMAL PROGRESSION (SIX WEEKS WOULD END ca 15/2/41; WAS PROMOTED AS NORMAL TO LAC 16/3/41 (WHY A MONTH LATER ? - PERHAPS HIS ITW DID'T START ON TIME SO FINISHED LATE).
Arnold 1 - 20/5/40 (presumably this should be 20/5/41)
YES. PROBABLY HAD EMBARKATION LEAVE AFTER ITW, BUT WE HAVE 3 MONTHS TO ACCOUNT FOR. REST MIGHT BE AT SOME TRANSIT CAMP. "ARNOLD 1" MIGHT SIMPLY BE NO MORE THAN A NOTIFICATION THAT HE'D BEEN SELECTED FOR AN ARNOLD CONTINGENT.
PTC - 30/5/41 (although again the year is not really legible)
YEAR IS 41. "PERSONNEL TRANSIT CAMP ?" (SOUNDS LIKE BLACKPOOL, WHERE HE'D GET ISSUED WITH A CHEAP CIVVIE SUIT, WHITE SHIRT, TIE & BERET.
Spartan SofA - (no date but then there are 3 entries lower with an inserting arrow)
GUESS: "SPARTAN SONOFABITCH" (CONDITIONS AT BLACKPOOL? - IT DEPENDED ON WHICH BOARDING HOUSE YOU WERE BILLETED ON (SURE AS HELL IT WASN'T THE "IMPERIAL HOTEL !")
Albany (Georgia) - 8/6/41 (ARNOLD)
WOULD BE HIS PRIMARY SCHOOL. AS HE WOULD NORMALLY GRADUATE SIX MONTHS LATER (A FEW DAYS INTO THE NEW YEAR), HE'D BE COURSE 42A. SO IT'D FOLLOW THE LAST AMERICAN COURSE (41K ?) DID HE EVER MENTION THE "HAZING" ? (AT CARLSTROM THEY HAD A RIOT AND PUT A STOP TO IT).
Maxwell Fld (Montgomery, Alabama) - 6/8/41 (ARNOLD)
HIS BASIC SCHOOL. IT WOULD SEEM THAT HE WAS "WASHED OUT" FROM THERE 3 WEEKS INTO HIS 8 WEEK COURSE (WHY ?). WASHOUTS FROM "BASIC" (7%) AND "ADVANCED" (2%) WERE RARE.
3 BFTS Miami (OKLAHOMA - NOT FLA - DREAM ON !) - 28/8/41 BFTS
NOW THIS
IS A COMPLETE MYSTERY ! I'VE NEVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING. MIGHT IT BE THAT THEY'D DECIDED TO GIVE HIM A SECOND CHANCE IN A BFTS ? (ALL OUR WASHOUTS WENT STRAIGHT BACK TO CANADA). SEEMS HE SPENT 3 WEEKS THERE ???
PTC - 1/10/41 31PDC Trenton (Ontario) - 7/10/41 and 25/10/41 (2 dates in the same square)
CLEARLY ANOTHER TRANSIT CAMP (IN AND OUT DATES).
33 ANS - 23/11/41 Hamilton (Ontario)
16 WEEKS NAV SCHOOL, 30/3/42 PROMOTED SGT, SO MUST HAVE GOT NAV WING SAME DATE, FOLLOWED BY:-
31 B&GS - 16/3/42 Picton (Ontario)
ONE MONTH BOMBING AND GUNNERY SCHOOL
Discharged (TECHICALITY) - 26/4/42 (Appointed Emerg (WAR SUBSTANTIVE) Comm Plt/Off GD Bch RAFVR 27/4/42)
COMMISSIONED (AND BACK TO UK ?) THE FACT OF HIS BEING ACCEPTED FOR PILOT TRAINING AT 27 YRS OLD WAS UNUSUAL, BUT NOT UNKNOWN (OFFICIAL LIMITS 17½ - 23). BUT ALMOST CERTAINLY PLAYED A PART IN HIS SELECTION FOR COMMISSIONING - THAT, AND THE FACT THAT HE'D HAD A RESPONSIBLE JOB AS A TEACHER.
Best I can do. Let's have the rest of his story whenever you can, Xercules.
Cheers, Danny.