List of World War I flying aces from India explained

This is a list of World War I flying aces from British India.

• 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]
• 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 British 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] 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.
• 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.

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Bibliography

• Book: Norman . Franks . Norman Franks . Russell F. . Guest . Gregory . Alegi . 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 . London, UK . Grub Street . 1997 . 978-1-898697-56-5 . amp.
• Book: Christopher F. . Shores . Norman . Franks . Norman Franks . Russell F. . Guest . Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915–1920 . London, UK . Grub Street . 1990 . 978-0-948817-19-9 . amp.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lawrence Coombes . The Aerodrome . 22 April 2011.
2. Web site: Maurice Scott . The Aerodrome . 30 October 2017.
3. Web site: Edward Atkinson . The Aerodrome.com . 13 April 2011.
4. Web site: Asian aces and pilots . Aces of WWI . 8 November 2007 . 1 January 2016.
5. Web site: Remembering Indra Lal Roy, India's 'Ace' Over Flanders . K. S. Nair . 22 July 2017 . The Wire.