I remember seeing a picture of the Blackboard: one of the signatures on it was Paul Ritchey (later the Wing Commander who sailed with us in the "Stirling Castle " out to Bombay), so adding colour to the fairy-tale we had been told about a new Spitfire Wing to be formed in India. The idea was that we were going to cover ourselves with glory in a coming "Battle of India".
Of course it never happened, there were no Spitfires out there then
; it was one of the many "pups" sold us in those times (but it kept us happy for a while).
D.