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12 Course

End Date : 05 Apr 42

12 Pilot Course - Selected officer cadets selected candidates were sent to ITC Walton in Lahore for ground and service training for 10 weeks, followed by a two week break. Thereafter they joined 1 EFTS (Secunderabad) or 2 EFTS (Jodhpur) for 10 weeks on Tigermoths for Basic flying on 25 January 1942 and completed the training 25 March 1942. They were commissioned on reporting to 1 SFTS (Ambala on Audax and Hart) for advanced flying on 5 April 1942. They were awarded wings on completion of the advanced traning on 24 September 1942.

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1856 GD(P) (Later A&SD)
Wing Commander
Munir Mall

1857 GD(P)
Flight Lieutenant
Madhu Mohan Crishna

1858 GD(P)
Flying Officer
Ikbal Narayan Shivpuri
Died in Service on 26 Jan 44

1859 GD(P)
Flying Officer
Cedric Anthony Starr
Died in Service on 17 Jul 44

1860 GD(P)
Flying Officer
Alma Sarhan Latif

1861 GD(P)
Group Captain
Amrit Lal Bery

1862 GD(P)
Flying Officer
George Vurgese
Died in Service on 16 May 44

1864 GD(P)
Flight Lieutenant
Ronald Duncan Rollo

1865 GD(P)
Group Captain
Anant Vemanrao Samsi

1866 GD(P) (Later F(P))
Air Marshal
Devaiah Subia

1867 GD(P) (Later F(P))
Air Vice Marshal
Charandas Gurudas Devashar

1868 GD(P) (Later F(P))
Air Commodore
Arjan Singh Mangharam Bhawnani

1869 GD(P)
Squadron Leader
Rustom Sorabji Kalyaniwala
Died in Service on 22 Aug 51

1870 GD(P)
Group Captain
Gurbachan Singh Bhullar

1871 GD(P)
Flying Officer
Naresh Kumar Srivastava
Died in Service on 05 Jan 44

1872 GD(P)
Flying Officer
Moti Lal Vatal

1873 GD(P)
Wing Commander
Saravu Kukkemane Ramachandra Bhat
Died in Service on 14 Oct 60

1874 GD(P) (Later F(P))
Air Vice Marshal
Madhav Bhawrao Naik

1875 GD(P)
Flight Lieutenant
Clifford Joseph Mendoza
Died in Service on 31 Oct 47

1876 GD(P)
Flying Officer
Kuldip Singh Thandi
Died in Service on 15 Apr 45

1877 GD(P)
Flying Officer
Minoo Rustom Mistry



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1878 GD(P)
Flying Officer
Wasim Khan



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1879 GD(P)
Flight Lieutenant
Raymond Arthur Wakeham Stidston

1880 GD(P) (Later ARMT)
Wing Commander
Kartar Singh Taunque

1881 GD(P)
Flying Officer
Kalyan Kumar Ganguly



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1882 GD(P)
Flight Lieutenant
Saradindu Das Gupta
Died in Service on 22 Mar 48



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1883 GD(P)
Flying Officer
Mohammad Salim Khan

1884 GD(P)
Flying Officer
Ram Saran Sharma
Died in Service on 05 Dec 44

1887 GD(P) (Later A&SD)
Flight Lieutenant
Jagan Nath Dhar



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GD(P)
Acting Pilot Officer
Sangram Singh Bali
Died in Service on 20 May 42



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GD(P)
Acting Pilot Officer
Narendra Nath Banerji



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GD(P)
Acting Pilot Officer
Dinshaw Ardeshir Behrana



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GD(P)
Acting Pilot Officer
Abdul Ghafoor



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GD(P)
Acting Pilot Officer
Chandrasen Gordhandas Gopaldas



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GD(P)
Acting Pilot Officer
Chakalayil Kurian Kurian



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GD(P)
Acting Pilot Officer
Jugsharn Singh Sandhu



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GD(P)
Acting Pilot Officer
Syed Mohammed Asghar



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GD(P)
Acting Pilot Officer
Mohammad Afzal Khan



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GD(P)
Acting Pilot Officer
Atam Parkash Sachdev

GD(P)
Acting Pilot Officer
Harbaksh Singh

1971 GD(P)
Group Captain
Said Akhtar Aziz


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