There is certainly some confusion Dave
"Flight" JUNE 7TH, 1945
BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS last week inaugurated a new through service to Australia, the longest air route in the world.
A Lancastrian aircraft left the BOAC's landplane base at Hurn, Dorset, manned by BOAC crews for Karachi. There crews of Qantas Empire Airways take over for the remainder of the 13,257 miles voyage.
A Qantas Lancastrian mail plane left Sydney in the opposite direction.
The new service, which for the present will be operated jointly by B.O.A.C. and Qantas Empire Airways and will fly once weekly in each direction, has been undertaken to serve the needs of the Far Eastern theatre of war and will carry freight and a small number of official passengers. The route is via Lydda (Palestine), Karachi and Ceylon. Sydney will be reached in under 70 hours.
The first London to Sydney scheduled service was carried out by G-AGLS departing on 28 May 1945.
The QEA aircraft came from BOAC stock, so the question is when did they assume the VH- registration?