List of World War I flying aces from India
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This is a list of World War I flying aces from British India.
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- Captain Lawrence Percival Coombes garnered 15 aerial victories as a Sopwith Camel pilot for the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force.[1][2]
- Captain Edward Dawson Atkinson was credited with 10 aerial victories in two combat tours, one while flying a Nieuport and another flying a Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a.[3]
- Captain Indra Lal Roy was credited with 10 aerial victories while piloting a Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a in No. 40 Squadron RAF.[4][5][6]
- Captain (later Group Captain) Arthur Peck of No. 111 Squadron RFC was credited with eight aerial victories.[7]
- Captain Douglas Carbery scored six confirmed aerial victories while serving as an aerial observer in various squadrons.
- Lieutenant Thomas Cecil Silwood Tuffield had six aerial victories confirmed while flying as an observer in 48 Squadron's Bristol F.2 Fighters.[8]
- Captain George M. Cox scored five aerial victories as a Sopwith Camel pilot for No. 65 Squadron RAF.[9]
References
- Notes
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- ↑ Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 120.
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- ↑ Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), pp. 327–328.
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- ↑ Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 301.
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- ↑ Shores, Franks & Guest (1990), p. 124.
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