RE: "Pupil Pilot"
Could be many reasons:
a) CWGC is simply wrong.... It does happen! The original records could be wrong, or the mistake happened on computerisation
b) He could have been on conversion training on Mosquito (was an OTU) after all and this fact has been corrupted over time to be Pupil Pilot. Rather than Pilot under conversion training
The lesson to take, is check the sources and re-check the sources and then cross check other sources and take what is said just because it is on some official web site then it must be true.
BTW seny. is short hand for
Seniority
See:
http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/info...v_rankings.htm and
http://www.friesian.com/rank.htm
or google Seniority military rank
It is for Navy, but it works for all 3 UK Services
BTW as the Junior Service (formed 1918, in fact the RAF lies behind the Army and then Navy in the Seniority rankings and that is why the Navy is sometimes called the 'Senior Service'.. So I believe if you had 3 officers, one of each service, each of the same equivalent rank, each promoted on the same day and they had to decide who was in charge.. then the naval one would take precedence, by want of being in the Senior service
Paul