Invitation to aircrew selection board
Title
Invitation to aircrew selection board
Description
For R Baker to attend the No 3 RAF Recruit Centre Padgate on 27 October 1941 for aviation candidates selection board. Gives advice to attendees. On the reverse subsistence allowances.
Creator
Date
1941-10-20
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Language
Format
Two page printed letter
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Contributor
Identifier
MBakerR1549392-200303-15
Transcription
NATIONAL SERVICE (ARMED FORCES) ACT, 1939.
MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE,
Divisional Office, M.R. POSTING SECTION,
SUNLIGHT HOUSE,
QUAY ST.,
MANCHESTER. 3
Date. 20.10.41
Mr. Robert Baker,
“Ivy Bank”,
Limefield Terr. Levenshulme,
Registration No. LHB, 7264
DEAR SIR,
Candidates for flying service in the Royal Air Force are required to attend before an Aviation Candidates Selection Board before acceptance. As you expressed a preference for such service, you are asked to attend for interview by a Selection Board at 9.30 a.m. on Monday, 27th Oct. 194 [deleted] 0 [/deleted] [inserted] 1 [/inserted] , or as early as possible thereafter on that day at No. 3 R.A.F. Recruit Centre, Padgate
Candidates who have a long distance to travel can report to the Centre the previous evening, where accommodation will be available for them, rather than travel during the night.
The Air Ministry point out that this interview is for the purpose of considering further your suitability for flying duties, and is not to be regarded as a notice calling you up for actual service. You are warned, therefore, not to give up at this stage your civil employment or make definite arrangements for leaving civil life. If you are accepted, further information will be issued and ample notice of the date when you would be required to report for service will be given to you.
If you wear glasses, you should bring them with you.
On reporting at the Centre you should present this form and your Certificate of Registration (N.S.2) to the clerk in charge of the waiting room.
A Travelling Warrant for your return journey is enclosed. Before starting your journey you must exchange the warrant for a ticket at the booking office named on the warrant. You should take special care of the return half of the ticket as in the event of loss you will be required to obtain a fresh ticket at normal fare at your own expense.
If you reside more than six miles from the Centre and travel by omnibus or tram your fare will be paid on production of the ticket at the Centre.
Any expenses or allowances which may become payable to you in accordance with the scale overleaf will be paid to you on application when you attend at the Centre.
Immediately on receipt of this notice, you should inform your employer of the date and time at which you are required to attend for interview. Yours faithfully, [ink stamp] A. TURNER [/ink stamp] For Divisional Controller. [P.T.O.
N.S. 132.
[page break]
SCALE
[list of subsistence allowances]
ALLOWANCES FOR LOSS OF EARNINGS.
The officer at the Centre will be authorised to pay a sum not exceeding 5s. 0d. in addition to the above rates to any person who claims an allowance in respect of pecuniary loss unavoidably suffered by attendance at a Selection Board and who completes a declaration to that effect. Any claimant who subsequently finds that this allowance is insufficient and desires to claim further compensation will be required to submit proof of loss on a claim form which may be obtained from the officer at the Centre or the office which issued this notice.
MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE,
Divisional Office, M.R. POSTING SECTION,
SUNLIGHT HOUSE,
QUAY ST.,
MANCHESTER. 3
Date. 20.10.41
Mr. Robert Baker,
“Ivy Bank”,
Limefield Terr. Levenshulme,
Registration No. LHB, 7264
DEAR SIR,
Candidates for flying service in the Royal Air Force are required to attend before an Aviation Candidates Selection Board before acceptance. As you expressed a preference for such service, you are asked to attend for interview by a Selection Board at 9.30 a.m. on Monday, 27th Oct. 194 [deleted] 0 [/deleted] [inserted] 1 [/inserted] , or as early as possible thereafter on that day at No. 3 R.A.F. Recruit Centre, Padgate
Candidates who have a long distance to travel can report to the Centre the previous evening, where accommodation will be available for them, rather than travel during the night.
The Air Ministry point out that this interview is for the purpose of considering further your suitability for flying duties, and is not to be regarded as a notice calling you up for actual service. You are warned, therefore, not to give up at this stage your civil employment or make definite arrangements for leaving civil life. If you are accepted, further information will be issued and ample notice of the date when you would be required to report for service will be given to you.
If you wear glasses, you should bring them with you.
On reporting at the Centre you should present this form and your Certificate of Registration (N.S.2) to the clerk in charge of the waiting room.
A Travelling Warrant for your return journey is enclosed. Before starting your journey you must exchange the warrant for a ticket at the booking office named on the warrant. You should take special care of the return half of the ticket as in the event of loss you will be required to obtain a fresh ticket at normal fare at your own expense.
If you reside more than six miles from the Centre and travel by omnibus or tram your fare will be paid on production of the ticket at the Centre.
Any expenses or allowances which may become payable to you in accordance with the scale overleaf will be paid to you on application when you attend at the Centre.
Immediately on receipt of this notice, you should inform your employer of the date and time at which you are required to attend for interview. Yours faithfully, [ink stamp] A. TURNER [/ink stamp] For Divisional Controller. [P.T.O.
N.S. 132.
[page break]
SCALE
[list of subsistence allowances]
ALLOWANCES FOR LOSS OF EARNINGS.
The officer at the Centre will be authorised to pay a sum not exceeding 5s. 0d. in addition to the above rates to any person who claims an allowance in respect of pecuniary loss unavoidably suffered by attendance at a Selection Board and who completes a declaration to that effect. Any claimant who subsequently finds that this allowance is insufficient and desires to claim further compensation will be required to submit proof of loss on a claim form which may be obtained from the officer at the Centre or the office which issued this notice.
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Citation
A Turner, “Invitation to aircrew selection board,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 23, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/29230.
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