Danny: my father was already there; my mother, myself and my baby sister were conveyed at His Majesty's expense aboard the good ship Strathnaver from Southampton to Bombay. Our fine cruise took three weeks and we enjoyed luxurious accommodation with three-decker bunks in near-empty dormitories. There was no problem shipping families out, the problem was going the other way and no doubt many thousands of Servicemen would have been delighted to sleep on the deck as long as they got passage home.
Presumably the prospect of Indian independence and ensuing Partition was still some distance away in British thinking, we expected our posting to last for a few years at least. Seventy years later I still treasure those memories.