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I checked for a dozen pages or so in both directions from Henry Powell's baptism record and the closest I can find to "Barchild" is "base child" - see image. It's in different handwriting, so not very helpful for comparison purposes, unfortunately.

I did find a few other illegitimate births but none were marked as such i.e. the only indicator was the absence of the father's name.

Thanks for that - bastard child or baseborn child do seem the most likely. I think I got a bit hung up on the "r" 

Yes, Joel and Josh both look like better options than mine - thanks Igor and Fran for your suggestions. Much appreciated!

Steve

You might be on to something there, so thanks for that. I've just checked the service record again and found a couple of other places where ACR codes are used - see attachments.

The first attachment shows the education and qualifications, with his former occupation of motor car designing being assigned an ACR123 (or possibly ACR/23) code. He worked as a motor car designer from 1906 to 1914/15, so I can't see how that relates to the time period unless he didn't receive recognition for that until 1923.

The second attachment is an extract from his medical board notes; I've omitted the medical condition, but you can see the board dates, classification and remarks - the latter has ACR references i.e. ACR 1925, ACR 1926-1934 and ACR 1935 and these correspond with the dates of the medical conditions.

I've searched for the ACR acronym but haven't found anything definite. The closest was "Appointments, Commissions & Rewards" that I found on a Canadian air force website.

Thanks Paul - I tried the Maidenhead ATA museum but they couldn't find anything. They said that quite a few officers' records are missing, unfortunately.

I hadn't checked the Flight Global archives, so thanks for the tip - will check that now.