hello it's good to hear from you my tuneful friend i am aware of the british custom of holding a commission in a home unit while serving with the rfc i used the term transfer because ball had given up his commission in infantry and carried his commission only in the rfc thus he was no longer seconded however he transferred from unit to unit so you see there can be a slight difference between seconding and transfer i am trying to bring albert ball up to featured article status as part of my cleanup effort at present i am wrapping up all my wp projects so that i leave no mess behind after that i don't know the assessment rules of the wp game make for a game i feel is not worth playing and being only a mere writer among all the code monkeys is wearing and i do have a final draft of a novel to work upon and the concept of another but as i said good to hear from you my point was simply that while one source may say transferred and another seconded there is in practical terms no real difference between what happened in either case and hence no need to either edit or revert an edit to switch beween the terms transfer is possibly the clearest term for modern readers although original sources generally prefer seconded when they talk about transfering between branches of the service rather than specific units never heard of anyone giving up a commission in the army to join the rfc it wasn't a separate service until after ball's death so this just doesn't make sense never mind not as if any of this matters it was just a thought sorry to hear you are getting wp burnout happens to us all sooner or later i fear good luck with the novel is it based on your own service years best regards