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'''Indra Lal Roy''' ({{Lang-bn|ইন্দ্রলাল রায়}}), {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DFC}} (2 December 1898 – 22 July 1918) is the sole Indian World War I [[flying ace]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Indians-who-lorded-over-European-skies-in-WWI/articleshow/44717029.cms |title=Indians who lorded over European skies in WWI |first=Manimugdha S. |last=Sharma |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |date=8 October 2014 |access-date=8 October 2015}}</ref><ref name=IndiaToday>{{cite web |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/indra-lal-roy/1/453110.html |title=Indra Lal Roy 97th death anniversary: Some unknown facts you must know about the flying ace |work=[[India Today]] |date=22 July 2015 |access-date=8 October 2015}}</ref> While serving in the [[Royal Flying Corps]] and its successor, the [[Royal Air Force]], he claimed ten aerial victories; five aircraft destroyed (one shared), and five 'down out of control' (one shared) in just over 170 hours flying time,<ref>{{cite book |first1=Christopher F. |last1=Shores |first2=Norman |last2=Franks |author-link2=Norman Franks |first3=Russell F. |last3=Guest |title=Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915–1920 |location=London, UK |publisher=Grub Street |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-948817-19-9 |page=328}}</ref> making him the first Indian [[flying ace]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thewire.in/history/indra-lal-roy-ace-flanders-india-failed-celebrate |title=Remembering Indra Lal Roy, India's 'Ace' Over Flanders |author=K. S. Nair |date=22 July 2017 |publisher=[[The Wire (India)|The Wire]]}}</ref>