13 Course

End Date : 29 Jun 42

13 Pilot Course - Candidates report to local flying clubs around 15 Dec 1941. Subsequently, 84 selected candidates were sent to ITC Walton in Lahore for ground and service training for 10 weeks, followed by a two week break. This included 79 Indian cadets (including a Lieutenant from the Indian Army, and a Merchant Navy cadet from IMM TS Dufferin), four re-musters from the RAF (one Equipment branch Wing Commander, and three Sergeants), and a veterinary surgeon from Bombay.Thereafter they headed to 1 EFTS (Secunderabad) or 2 EFTS (Jodhpur) for 10 weeks on Tigermoths for Basic flying. They were commissioned on reporting to 1 SFTS (Ambala on Audax and Hart) for advanced flying on 29 June 1942. They were awarded wings on completion of the advanced traning on 14 Dec 1942. Service Numbers for course were alloted in albhabeitcal order and not in seniority.

View Career Timeline of Individual members in this course

No Image Available GD(P) Acting Pilot Officer Raja Mohd Anwar	No Image Available GD(P) Acting Pilot Officer Atta Ullah	1907 GD(P) Group Captain Abdul Naeem Aziz	1908 GD(P) Squadron Leader Abdullah Beg	1909 GD(P) Pilot Officer Mohan Karam Chand Died in Service on 29 Apr 43
1910 GD(P) Flying Officer Jotindar Singh Dhillon	No Image Available 1911 GD(P) Flying Officer Ishwar Dass Died in Service on 13 Jan 45	No Image Available GD(P) Acting Pilot Officer Om Parkash Dawesar	No Image Available GD(P) Acting Pilot Officer Terrence De Souza	No Image Available 1912 GD(P) Flying Officer Harbans Singh
No Image Available GD(P) Acting Pilot Officer Jaswant Singh Kapoor	1913 GD(P) Group Captain Abdul Majeed Khan	No Image Available GD(P) Acting Pilot Officer Om Parkash Mehta	1914 GD(P) Pilot Officer Bhagwan Ghanshamdas Mansukhani	1915 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Air Commodore Bal Bhagwan Marathe
1916 GD(P) Pilot Officer Ajmail Singh Sekhon Died in Service on 19 Apr 43	No Image Available 1917 GD(P) (Later SIGS) Wing Commander Zulfiqar Ali Aziz	No Image Available 1918 GD(P) Flight Lieutenant Dewan Balwant Rai Died in Service on 26 Jul 47	No Image Available 1919 GD(P) Flying Officer Faiz Ahmad	No Image Available 1920 GD(P) Flying Officer Charan Das Sharma Died in Service on 03 Jul 43
1921 GD(P) Squadron Leader Baldev Singh Dogra Died in Service on 07 Feb 51	No Image Available GD(P) Acting Pilot Officer Ved Kumar	No Image Available GD(P) Acting Pilot Officer Anand Ramrao Kaushik	1923 GD(P) Group Captain Mohammad Jamiluddin Khan	No Image Available GD(P) Acting Pilot Officer Raool Ahmad Mirza
No Image Available 1924 GD(P) Squadron Leader Ronald Edward Noah	No Image Available 1925 GD(P) Squadron Leader Mohan Krishnarao Nerurkar	1926 GD(P) Group Captain Christopher Andrew Neelakantan	1927 GD(P) Group Captain Churukara George Immanuel Phillip	1928 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Air Commodore Solomon Purushottam
1929 GD(P) Flying Officer Bashir Ahmed Died in Service on 26 Oct 43	No Image Available GD(P) Acting Pilot Officer Cecil Eric Robson	No Image Available GD(P) Acting Pilot Officer Anil Sinha	No Image Available 1930 GD(P) Acting Pilot Officer Anson Frank Sallick	1931 GD(P) Pilot Officer Kulwant Singh Sandhu Died in Service on 29 May 43
1932 GD(P) Flying Officer Sahebzada Manzur Hussain	No Image Available 1936 GD(P) Pilot Officer Ittly Valale Chacko	No Image Available 1937 GD(P) (Later F(P)) Group Captain Sharan Singh Sawhny

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