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{{hatnote|Not to be confused with [[India Command]]}}
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'''RAF India''', later called '''Air Forces in India''' (1938–47) was a [[command (military formation)|command]] of the [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF) that was active from 1918 until Indian independence and partition in 1947. It was the [[air force]] counterpart of the [[British Army]] in India.

== Origins and history ==
The command had its origins in units of the [[Royal Flying Corps]] in India.{{Sfn|Government of India|1924|pp=175-176}}{{Sfn|Walters|2017|p=214-215}} In November 1915, the War Office despatched [[No. 31 Squadron RAF|No. 31 Squadron]] to India, the squadron arriving at Nowshera in December.{{Sfn|Government of India|1924|pp=175-176}}{{Sfn|Walters|2017|p=214-215}} The squadron, including a basic aircraft park, was subsequently transferred to Risalpur.{{Sfn|Government of India|1924|pp=175-176}} A period of intensive training ensued, during which flights were periodically sent on patrols over the North-West Frontier regions. A second squadron ([[No. 114 Squadron RAF|No. 114 Squadron]]) was added in 1917.{{Sfn|Government of India|1924|pp=175-176}} When the RAF was formed in May 1918, the total strength of the air force in India was 80 officers and 600 men.{{Sfn|Government of India|1924|pp=175-176}} During the 1920s and 1930s, RAF India suffered from under-funding and subordination to the [[Commander-in-Chief, India]]; in July 1938, [[Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote|Thomas Inskip]], the Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, released a report highlighting the command's "deplorable obsolescence which rendered it un-employable against modern aircraft."{{Sfn|Walters|2017|p=284-286}} At the time, RAF India only received from 4 to 7 percent of the defence budget for British India, less than the allocation for the 16 horsed cavalry regiments in the [[British Indian Army]].{{Sfn|Walters|2017|p=284-285}}

== Second World War ==
The air component of the British-American [[South East Asia Command]] became [[Air Command, South East Asia]] (ACSEA) on 30 December 1943, under Air Chief Marshal Sir [[Richard Peirse]], who had been appointed [[Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief]], Air Forces in India, in March 1942.<ref>[http://www.rafweb.org/Organsation/Cmd_O3.htm Overseas Commands - Iraq, India and the Far East]</ref> It was based almost entirely in India and drew its administrative support from the RAF's Air Forces India.

On 1 July 1944 ACSEA comprised [[No. 222 Group RAF]], [[No. 225 Group RAF]], [[No. 229 Group RAF]], and [[Eastern Air Command, South East Asia Command|Eastern Air Command]], under U.S. Lieutenant General [[George E. Stratemeyer]], itself being made up of the Strategic Air Force ([[7th Bombardment Group]] USAAF and [[No. 231 Group RAF]], under Brigadier General [[Howard C. Davidson]] of the United States Army Air Force);<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-RAF-III/UK-RAF-III-14.html|title = HyperWar: Royal Air Force 1939-1945: Volume III: The Fight is Won [Chapter 14]}}</ref> the U.S. [[Tenth Air Force]] ([[80th Fighter Group]], [[311th Fighter Group]], and [[443rd Troop Carrier Group]]); the [[RAF Third Tactical Air Force]] ([[No. 221 Group RAF|Nos 221]] and [[No. 224 Group RAF|224 Groups]], [[No. 177 Wing RAF]], [[3d Combat Cargo Group]] USAAF, and [[12th Bombardment Group]] USAAF); the Photographic Reconnaissance Force ([[No. 171 Wing RAF]] and U.S. [[8th Photographic Reconnaissance Group]]); and [[No. 293 Wing RAF]].<ref name=Orbat1744>[https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-RAF-III/UK-RAF-III-XII.html APPENDIX XII Order of Battle, Air Command, South-East Asia, 1st July 1944]</ref> By January 1945 ACSEA's subsidiary Base Air Forces South East Asia, under Air Marshal Sir [[Roderick Carr]], comprised [[No. 223 Group RAF]] on the North West Frontier at [[RAF Peshawar]], No. 225 Group RAF (responsible for the "air defence of southern India and the whole coastline from Bengal to Karachi," by January 1943 controlling Nos 172 and [[No. 173 Wing RAF|173 Wings]]<ref name=Org7>{{cite web|title=Group No's 200 - 333|url=http://www.rafweb.org/Organsation/Grp07.htm Group Nos 200-333}}</ref>), [[No. 226 Group RAF]], [[No. 227 Group RAF]], and [[No. 230 Group RAF]], carrying out maintenance, training, and administration.<ref>HyperWar, [https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-RAF-III/UK-RAF-III-IV.html RAF in January 1945]</ref>

Thomas and Carr from March 1944 were Air Officers Commanding, Air Headquarters India. When [[Hugh Walmsley]] arrived at the headquarters he was initially appointed as Air Officer Administration. But by the time Walmsley was appointed as AOC, the command's title had become RAF India once more.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Walmsley.htm | title=H S P Walmsley_P }}</ref>

== Postwar ==
=== Strikes in January 1946 ===
{{Main|Royal Air Force strikes of 1946}}
A series of demonstrations and strikes occurred at several dozen [[Royal Air Force]] stations in the Indian subcontinent beginning on 22 January 1946.<ref name=RAFMuseum>{{cite web |url=https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/never-forgotten-the-raf-in-the-far-east/mutiny/ |title=Mutiny? |publisher=[[Royal Air Force Museum]]}}</ref> As these incidents involved refusals to obey orders, they technically constituted a form of [[mutiny]].<ref name=RAFMuseum/> The protests arose in response to slow [[Demobilization of the British Armed Forces after World War II|demobilization and return]] of British troops to Britain, and use of British shipping facilities for transporting [[G.I. (military)|G.I.]]s. The "mutiny" began at either [[Maripur]]<ref name=RAFMuseum/> or nearby [[Karachi]] ([[PAF Base Faisal|RAF Drigh Road]]) and later spread to involve nearly 50,000 men over 60 RAF stations in India, Burma, Ceylon and as far away as Singapore,<ref name=Childs22>{{Harvnb|Childs|2000|p=22}}</ref> Egypt, North Africa, and Gibraltar.<ref>{{cite web|title=World War II: from war to revolution|url=https://www.marxist.com/world-war-ii-from-war-to-revolution.htm|date=27 April 2020|access-date=27 April 2020|author=Ben Gliniecki}}</ref> The peaceful protests lasted between three and eleven days.

For their part, the British Government argued that there was insufficient shipping available to immediately repatriate British personnel. However, later declassified reports have shown that British troops were deliberately retained in India to control possible unrest from the [[Indian independence movement]].<ref name=Childs22/>

Some of the airmen involved faced [[Court-martial|courts-martial]]. However, the precedent set by this event was important in instigating subsequent actions by the [[Royal Indian Air Force]] and later, the [[Royal Indian Navy]] in February 1946, in which [[Royal Indian Navy mutiny|mutinies on 78 ships broke out]]. [[Lord Wavell]], [[Viceroy]] of India, commented at the time, "I am afraid that [the] example of the Royal Air Force, who got away with what was really a mutiny, has some responsibility for the present situation."<ref>Field Marshal Viscount Wavell to Mr Attlee (via India Office), Telegram, L/PO/4/28: ff 66-7. Sent 24 February 1946, 4.50 pm at New Delhi, appears in ''The Transfer of Power in India, 1942-47'', Volume 6, Page 1055 edited by [[Nicholas Mansergh]], published by Foreign & Commonwealth Office (London, 1976).</ref>

=== Drawdown and disbandment ===
The four major RAF formations under HQ Air Command South East Asia in India and Ceylon at the end of the war were HQ Base Air Forces South East Asia (BAFSEA); [[Air Headquarters Burma]]; HQ 222 Group at Columbo, controlling all operational squadrons in Ceylon, largely carrying out maritime duties; and 229 Group, a Transport Command group located in New Delhi. 222 Group disbanded by being renamed AHQ Ceylon on 15 October 1945; it inherited six Liberator squadrons (Nos 99, 356, 203, 8, 160, and 321 RNLAF); four Sunderland squadrons (205, 209, 230, and 240); and No. 136 Squadron with Spitfires.

No. 223 Group was disbanded at Peshawar by being redesignated No 1 (Indian) Group on 15 August 1945; No. 225 Group disbanded at Hindustan near Bangalore by being redesignated No 2 (Indian) Group on 1 May 1946; No. 226 Group disbanded at Palam on 31 July 1946, with its units being transferred to No.2 (Indian) Group; No. 227 Group disbanded at [[Agra]] on 1 May 1946 by becoming [[No. 4 (Indian) Group]]. In May 1945 No. 228 Group had moved to [[Barrackpore]] and absorbed No. 230 Group, and then on 1 May 1946 becoming [[No. 3 (Indian) Group]]. No. 229 Group disbanded on 31 March 1947 and its responsibilities were taken over by [[No. 1 (Indian) Group]]; and No. 231 Group ceased operations on 1 August 1945, with by that time no units assigned, and disbanded on 30 September.<ref name=Org7 />

AHQ India was reformed on 1 April 1946, taking over the role of BAFSEA. A month before, on 1 March 1946, Air Headquarters India Communication Squadron had been established at Safdarjung Airport ([[RAF Willingdon]]). Twelve RAF squadrons (225 Group: Nos 5, 30 at Bhopal, 45 at St Thomas Mount; 227 Group: 298 Squadron at Samungli with a detachment at Chaklala; [[No. 228 Group RAF]]: 176, 658 AOP, 355 at Digri, 159 at Salbani; 229 Group: 353 and 232 at Palam; and 10 and 76 with Dakotas at Poona) remained in India after 1 April 1946, and AHQ India was placed under joint command of the Indian Government and the Air Ministry.<ref>Air Marshal Sir [[David Lee (RAF officer)]], ''Eastward: A history of the Royal Air Force in the Far East 1945–1972'', HMSO 1984, 65-69, Appendix B, 261.</ref>

On 15 August 1947, the unified RIAF was separated into the [[Royal Indian Air Force]] and the [[Royal Pakistan Air Force]], and
AHQ India was disbanded.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rafweb.org/Organsation/Cmd_O3.htm | title=Commands - India/FE }}</ref> Air Marshal [[Hugh Walmsley]], the final commander of RAF India and the unified RIAF, then became Deputy Supreme Commander (Air), India and Pakistan,<ref name="departure"/> serving as head of the AHQ, [[Supreme Commander's Headquarters (India and Pakistan)]], which had become operational from 11 August.<ref name="communique">{{cite web|title=Press Communique - 12 November 1947|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1947-AUG-DEC-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1947-11-10_042.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=10 November 1947|accessdate=24 September 2022}}</ref> Following the dissolution of AHQ India, two new air force headquarters for India and Pakistan were established, with two and 13 RAF officers, respectively, being assigned to each AHQ to assist with reconstituting the former RIAF into a new RIAF and Royal Pakistan Air Force. A fortnight after the partition of India, 125 RAF officers continued to serve in the subcontinent.<ref>{{cite web|title=Press Communique - 6 September 1947|url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1947-AUG-DEC-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1947-09-06_002.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=6 September 1947|accessdate=24 September 2022}}</ref>

On 10 November 1947, Walmsley formally relinquished his appointments as Deputy Supreme Commander (Air), India and Pakistan, and as Air Officer Commanding RAF Units in India and Pakistan. He then left India for the United Kingdom, transferring his duties to his deputy, Air Commodore [[Richard Jordan (RAF officer)|Richard Jordan]], who closed the AHQ, Supreme Commander's Headquarters (India and Pakistan) on 17 November.<ref name="departure">{{cite web|title=Departure of Air Marshal H. S. P. Walmsley|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1947-AUG-DEC-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1947-11-13_045.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=13 November 1947|accessdate=24 September 2022}}</ref> On 15 December, the RIAF took command of [[Indira Gandhi International Airport|Palam Air Station]] from the RAF.<ref>{{cite web|title=RIAF Takes Over Palam Air Station|url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1947-JULY-DEC-MIN-OF-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1947-12-15_441.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=15 December 1947|accessdate=24 September 2022}}</ref> The former Supreme Commanders Headquarters (Air) Communication Squadron RAF then became the [[Air HQ Communication Squadron, Indian Air Force|Air HQ Communication Squadron, Royal Indian Air Force]].{{sfn|Lake|1999|p=18}}

==Commanders==
===Commander, Indian Group (1919 to 1920)===
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| officeholder = [[Tom Webb-Bowen]] {{small|[[Order of the Bath|CB]], [[Order of St. Michael and St. George|CMG]]}}
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| born_year = 1879
| died_year = 1956
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===Air Officer Commanding RAF, India (1920–1938)===
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| military_rank = [[Air Vice Marshal]]
| officeholder = [[Philip Game]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=75%|sep=,|CB|DSO}}
| officeholder_sort = Game, Philip
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| born_year = 1876
| died_year = 1961
| term_start = 31 December 1922
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| officeholder = [[Edward Ellington|Sir Edward Ellington]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=75%|sep=,|KCB|CMG|CBE}}
| officeholder_sort = Ellington, Edward
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| born_year = 1877
| died_year = 1967
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| officeholder_sort = Salmond, Geoffrey
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| officeholder_sort = Steel, John Miles
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| born_year = 1877
| died_year = 1965
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| term_end = 2 March 1935
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| officeholder = [[Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt|Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=75%|sep=,|KCB|CMG|DSO|MC}}
| officeholder_sort = Ludlow-Hewitt, Edgar
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| born_year = 1886
| died_year = 1973
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| officeholder_sort = Ferte, Philip Joubert
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| born_year = 1886
| died_year = 1973
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===Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Air Forces in India (1938–1947)===
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| officeholder = [[Jack Higgins (RAF officer)|Sir John Higgins]] {{post-nominals|country=UK|size=75%|sep=,|KCB|KBE|DSO|AFC}}
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| officeholder_sort = Playfair, Patrick
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| officeholder_sort = Thomas, Meredith
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(''On 15 August 1947, the unified RIAF was separated into the [[Royal Indian Air Force]] and the [[Royal Pakistan Air Force]]'')

===Deputy Supreme Commander (Air) India and Pakistan, and Air Officer Commanding RAF Units in India and Pakistan (1947)===
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==See also==
*[[Royal Indian Air Force]]
*[[Royal Indian Navy mutiny]]
*[[History of the Indian Air Force]]
*[[List of historical aircraft of the Indian Air Force]]
*[[List of Royal Air Force commands]]

== Notes ==
{{reflist}}

== References ==
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*John W. Cell, in Reviews of Books; Asia. ''White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India'' by Peter Stanley. The American Historical Review, Vol. 104, No. 3. (Jun., 1999), pp. 888–889.
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| publisher = Routledge
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*David Duncan, [http://www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk/RAF03.HTM Mutiny in the RAF - the Air Force Strikes of 1946]. {{ISBN|0-9523810-6-0}}.
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*Sir [[David Lee (RAF officer)]], ''Eastward: A history of the Royal Air Force in the Far East 1945–1972'', HMSO 1984.
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