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I'm still looking into post-1916 observer training. After ground school, that is; most of an observer's training would have been accomplished at one of the universities or other locations used as ground schools.
I'm fairly confident, though, that the answer to your main question is "no." There'd have been no need to train observers at a training squadron, since the sole purpose of those units was to teach pilots to fly. Observers would have been taught such skills as wireless, aerial interpretation (for lack of a better word for "learn to discern between a haystack and a machine-gun emplacement) and the artillery-spotting clock code. Oh, and aerial gunnery, of course.
My guess is that observers who transfered in while in France would have been sent to St. Omer, while direct entrants would have gone to ground school at Oxford or someplace similar. This is, of course, just a guess at this point.
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