rlsbutler (your #49),
...the pool of young ladies...
He was fortunate ! The War stopped the "Fishing Fleet", as all shipping space was needed for troops. And it multiplied tenfold the number of young unmarried British males in India. The Memsahibs and the Daughters of the Raj had the field to themselves. "Pool ?" - you were damned lucky too
see even one at a distance !
There were no British women's services in India (apart from QAs and our PMRAFNS). (Mountbatten had Wrens in Ceylon). The Government of India recruited local WACs (?), who wore a kit similar to the US pattern, for service in the larger cities. As these attracted a horde of Anglo-Indian girls, the DOTRs did not volunteer, as a rule.
Danny.