Absent Friends.
MPN11 and Fantom Zorbin,
IIRC, I was on the ATC School at Shawbury from autumn'62 to summer'65, casting my pearls before the new young ladies and gentlemen (mostly from Henlow) entering the Branch.
MPN11, I think you went through during that time, so we're speaking about the same man (remember the Grins Hill Walk ?!!) He was a few years older than I, so is by definition dead - and the dead can't sue for libel, fortunately.
Fantom Zorbin, you were long after that, so you must've had another of those of whom it was said: "The man should never have been commissioned in the first place - but it didn't show until he reached Group Captain !"
Danny.