Great stuff, Danny, please keep it coming. My father was stationed at Dum Dum in '46, presumably whence he went to the cinema you mentioned.
More on Flt Sgt Pring here - brief description with the sale of his medals.
Dix Noonan Webb: Medals: Auction Archive: Search Catalogue Archive: Lot 568, 30 Jun 98
And here is an entire article on him.
http://www.rquirk.com/176Sqdn/Sircar...0Hurricane.pdf
which includes the immortal line (just like Danny's on the VV) "And in view of the demonstrated ineffectiveness of the AI Mark 6 Hurricanes in the
U.K. , it was decided to send the 12 Hurricane II C (NF)s to India!(8)
Imperial habits die hard."