This is a list of World War I flying aces from British India. Template:Expand list
- Captain Lawrence Coombes, born in Madras, garnered 15 aerial victories as a Sopwith Camel pilot for the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force.[1]Template:Sfnp
- Captain Maurice Douglas Guest Scott was credited with 12 aerial victories flying as both observer and pilot.[2]
- Captain (later Squadron Leader) Edward Dawson Atkinson,of the Indian Army, was credited with 10 aerial victories in two combat tours, one while flying a Nieuport and another flying a Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a.[3]
- Captain Indra Lal Roy was credited with 10 aerial victories, within two weeks in July 1918, while piloting a Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a in No. 40 Squadron RAF.[4]Template:Sfnp He is the only Indian ace of the war.[5]
- Captain (later Group Captain) Arthur Peck of No. 111 Squadron RFC was credited with eight aerial victories.Template:Sfnp
- 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.
- Captain George M. Cox scored five aerial victories as a Sopwith Camel pilot for No. 65 Squadron RAF.Template:Sfnp
References
- Notes
- ↑ Lawrence Coombes. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
- ↑ Maurice Scott. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
- ↑ Edward Atkinson. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ↑ Asian aces and pilots(8 November 2007). Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- ↑ Remembering Indra Lal Roy, India's 'Ace' Over Flanders. The Wire(22 July 2017).
- Bibliography
- Above the War Fronts: The British Two-seater Bomber Pilot and Observer Aces, the British Two-seater Fighter Observer Aces, and the Belgian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Fighter Aces, 1914–1918{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Grub Street(1997). ISBN 978-1-898697-56-5
- Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915–1920{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Grub Street(1990). ISBN 978-0-948817-19-9