1932-39  THE EARLY YEARS

INDIANS  AT  RAF CRANWELL 

COURTESY: ANDREW THOMAS OF UK

Twenty one Indians were trained at RAF Cranwell between 1930 until 1939, by which time all training-Indians has been stabilised within India. The Information presented here is the courtesy of Mr. Andrew Thomas, a well know Aviation historian in UK.

No Name Date of Training   Com  Dt Rank Remarks
1 A B Awan

04 Sep 30-22 Jul 32

 1552 08Oct32 W/C Retd PAF . d 1980 
2 Subroto Mukherjee 04 Sep 30-22 Jul 32 1551 08-Oct-32 AM CAS d 1960 in service. 
3 Amarinder Singh 04 Sep 30-22 Jul 32 - 08-Oct-32 P/O d 1933 Wapiti Crash
4 Bhupinder Singh 04 Sep 30-22 Jul 32 - 08-Oct-32 P/O d 1933 Wapiti Crash 
5 H C Sircar 04 Sep 30-22 Jul 32 - 08-Oct-32    
6 Jagat Narain Tandon 04 Sep 30-22 Jul 32 1553 08-Oct-32 S/L  d 1944
7 Aspy Merwan Engineer 03 Sep 31-14 Jul 33 1554 15-Jul-33  AM Retd CAS , d 2002 
8 Karun Krishna Majumdar 01 Feb 32-15 Dec 33 1555   W/C K Hurri Cr 1945
9 Narendra 01 Feb 32-15 Dec 33 1556      
10 Ravindra Hari Darshan Singh 01 Feb 32-15 Dec 33 1558 27-Jul-35 A/Cmde Retd. 
11 R N Batra 01 Sep 32-14 Dec 34        
12 M K Khanna 01 Sep 32-14 Dec 34 -     w/d 21 Oct 32 on request
13 Habib Ullah Khan 31 Aug 33-26 Jul 35 1557   S/L K Hurri Cr Apr 1943
14 G R Sharma 31 Aug 33-26 Jul 35 -     w/d 17 Jan 35 Officer Unlikely
15 A Gupta 31 Aug 33-26 Jul 35 -     w/d 4 Sep 35 Ill health
16 Mehar Singh 06 Sep 34-31 Jul 36 1559 01-Aug-36 A/Cmde Retd. K Civilian Crash
17 S N Goyal 10 Sep 36-29 Jul 38 1560      
18 Dewan Atma Ram Nanda 10 Sep 36-29 Jul 38 1562 20-Sep-38 AVM  
19 K M Bahl 08 Sep 38-22 Dec 39 -     w/d 31 jul 39 Pilot unlikely
20 Arjan Singh 08 Sep 38-22 Dec 39 1577 23-Dec-39 MIAF Retd CAS 1967 MIAF 2002 
21 Prithipal Singh 08 Sep 38-22 Dec 39 1578 23-Dec-39 S/L K Hurri Cr 1943

Note:
The following comments were noted against the two. 
J N Tandon - w/dn 29 jun 31unlikely-make safe pilot
S Mukherjee - w/dn 2 Apr 31 - unlikely-make a safe pilot

Legend  

k   - Killed  In Operations, In Action
d   - Died Natural Causes , Illness
Cr - Crash

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