Thanks Vampire Dave. That fills in a lot of gaps. No RAF service by the look of it.
I found this on the RAAF Airpower site.
RAAF received its first jet aircraft to trial.
During May 1946, an ex-RAF Gloster Meteor F.3 jet aircraft was delivered to the RAAF’s No 1 Aircraft Depot at Laverton, Victoria. The aircraft had been provided on loan by the British War Ministry, to enable the RAAF to gain experience in operating a radical new type. It was flown on this day (5/06/1945) by Squadron Leader Derek (‘Jell’) Cuming, who earlier that year became the first RAAF officer to complete the Empire Test Pilots course. Two days later the Meteor was taken on strength with the tail number A77-1 and allotted to No 1 Aircraft Performance Unit for trials. Australia did eventually acquire the Meteor for squadron service, but only in 1951. By that time the de Havilland Vampire had already become, in 1949, the first jet acquired in numbers for the RAAF. In the meantime A77-1 had suffered a heavy landing at Darwin in February 1947, and been scrapped.