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Rear Admiral Kesavapillai Ramakrishnan "Jerry" Nair (1915–2007) was a former Flag officer in the Indian Navy who served as the first Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command.
Career
Early career
Nair was commissioned in the Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RINVR) in 1942,[1] and was promoted temporary acting lieutenant on 8 April 1943.[2] In 1944, he attended a specialist anti-submarine course in the United Kingdom.[1] On 21 January 1945, he was posted to HMIS Machlimar at Bombay, whose executive officer was Lieutenant-Commander Ram Dass Katari.[3]
Post-Independence
Nair was promoted to acting commander (paid) on 31 December 1949 and to substantive commander on 30 June 1951.[4][5] On 3 January 1955, he was appointed CO, INS Venduruthy at Cochin with the acting rank of captain,[6] receiving promotion to the substantive rank on 31 December 1955.[7] He held several important commands, including CO of INS Rana, captain of the 22nd Destroyer Squadron and INS Valsura at Jamnagar.[1] He was appointed Chief of Personnel (COP) at Naval Headquarters on 20 November 1959, in the rank of commodore,[8] and served until 1963, when he was appointed chief of staff to the Flag Officer Commanding Indian Fleet (FOCIF),[1] serving under Rear Admirals Adhar Kumar Chatterji and Benjamin Abraham Samson. In June 1965, he was appointed to a second tenure as Chief of Personnel and was promoted rear admiral in August when the post was raised to flag rank.[1]
In July 1967, Nair was appointed the first Flag Officer East Coast, based at Vishakhapatnam.[9] Eight months later, on 1 March 1968, he became the first Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command (FOC-in-C, ENC) when the post was upgraded. After serving for three years, he retired from the Navy in March 1971.[10] He died in 2007.[11]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Naval Promotions to Flag Rank. Press Information Bureau of India - Archive(17 August 1965). Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ↑ The Navy List: June 1944{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. H.M. Government(1943)
- ↑ The Navy List: July 1945{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. H.M. Government(1945)
- ↑ Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch)(14 January 1950).
- ↑ Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch)(14 July 1951).
- ↑ Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch)(29 October 1955).
- ↑ [{{{url}}} Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch)](14 April 1956).
- ↑ Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch)(9 April 1960).
- ↑ Admiral Nair - New Flag Officer, East Coast. Press Information Bureau of India - Archive(17 July 1967). Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ↑ Admiral Krishnan Takes Over as FOC-in-C Eastern Naval Command. Press Information Bureau of India - Archive(28 February 1971). Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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