Sorry Danny, but I've just checked my log book and I was posted to 202 AFS Valley on 02/07/51 along with six others (five pilot officers and two sergeants) from 6 FTS Tern Hill for No 7 course. After a week of groundschool I had my first famil flight in a Meteor 7 with Flt Lt Wallace, the flight commander on 11/07/51.
The unit had obviously been in operation for several weeks when our course began as there were a couple of courses already running.
A couple of the chaps on the senior courses were granted trips in Spitfires by 20 Sqn but much to my regret in later years, I did not persue that opportunity, for which nineteen year old in their right mind would want to fly an obsolescent aircraft when daily we were able to aviate in Vampire Mk 1s and 5s, not to mention dual in the Meteor? The course lasted three months and I then reported to 229 OCU Chivenor on 28/10/51 having had had a weeks leave.
So I guess that this is one occasion when Wiki got it right!