Memories!
A fascinating post Warmtoast. My father was an instructor at 5 EFTS at Thornhill from 1951 until it was closed in 1953.
After some UK postings Dad was posted to RAF Changi in Singapore in 1958, we travelled out by air and were only there for about a month when he was sent to RAF Katunayake where he spent almost a year flying supplies and personnel to and from Gan. After that it was back to Singapore for another couple of years. We had a holiday in Hong Kong during that time and travelled both ways on the Nevasa, though because Dad was an officer I think we must have travelled 1st class!
He died in 2002, and I have all his log books which helped when I wrote his life story a few years ago.