Danny/Angels. Yes I think we need a MO. According to wiki yellow fever is not found in Asia; and yet Danny had a jab for it, Angels’ father reportedly had it and 113 squadron (who went to India/Burma after service in North Africa) reported death from it during the retreat from Rangoon.
I do not know from when everybody going east would have gone via Blackpool but my father went to India in March 1942; according to his squadron’s (82) ORB they entrained at Watton and went straight to Liverpool where they embarked on the Empress of Russia. According to an account of a 79 squadron member who was on the same ship they were not told where they were going but guessed as they had been issued with tropical kit. David