Start Date : 01 Aug 40 End Date : 01 Aug 40
24 officers from the 4 Pilot Course were sent to the United Kingdom for Training and later joined RAF operational squadrons before returning to India. These 24 pilots are not a separate course, but we have called them 4 RAF. After commissioning on 1 August 1940, they spent the first four weeks at ITS Lahore. These 24 officers arrived by the P&O liner Strathalan in England on 8 October 1940. On arrival, they were given a welcome message addressed individually to them by the Air Minister, Sir Archibald Sinclair.
The 24 were initially sent for basic flying training at various EFTSs, followed by SFTS and OTUs. 10 went to 12 EFTS at Prestwick to undergo flying training on de Havilland Moths subjected to an abbreviated course, with seven or eight subjects to pass. 13 went to 11 SFTS at Shawbury. This training phase was over by June 1941. They subsequently spread among the Squadrons in Fighter, Coastal and Bomber Command. Eight of them were killed in training and operations.
1593 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerErlic Wilmot Pinto | 1594 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerRanjan Dutt | 1595 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerShivdev Singh | 1596 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerKanwar Haveli Shah Chopra | 1597 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerOm Prakash Sanghi |
1598 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerHari Chand Dewan | 1599 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerEdwin Nazir Ullah | 1600 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerKenneth Joseph Bhore | 1601 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerSatya Pal Shahi | 1602 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerMian Mohammed Latif |
1603 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerMohit Mohan Ghosh | 1604 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerMahindra Singh Pujji | 1628 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerChaman Lal Tandon | 1631 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerTarlochan Singh | 1632 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerHarbans Krishan Khanna |
1633 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerGanjam Subramaniah | 78 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerKali Prasad Chaudhury | 79 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerRustom Nariman Dastur | 80 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerChander Parkash Khosla | 81 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerHukum Chand Mehta |
82 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerAli Raza Khan Pasha | 83 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerGurbachan Singh | 84 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerGnanamuthu Anandaraj Samuel | 85 GD(P)Acting Pilot OfficerMan Mohan Singh |