On the RAF Ski School at Gulmarg (Kashmir) 1945-46, shaving was optional because the intense morning cold in the requisitioned wooden summer hotels made shaving an agony. But when you finished your month's Course, you had to shave the growth off when you rejoined your unit back in India.
As for the permanent Instructional Staff (there was a Wg Cdr O.C.), I suppose they could grow a "full set" - if the unit lasted that long ! I was on the first Course, starting just before Christmas in 1945, finishing end of January, 1946. Don't know when it was disbanded.
It had been set up as a R&R facility before the end of hostlities in August, 1945, but, I suppose , inertia and in the chaos of those first few months, nobody thought to stop it opening as planned.
But there is more - Google gives me:
John Angelo Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
in which appears:
"Kashmir.- 1944 Chief Instructor at the R.A.F. Mountain Training Centre, Kashmir Himalaya"
(All this I did not know of till five minutes ago)
It was a pukka RAF unit: there must be an ORB somewhere.
Danny.