Talk:Indra Lal Roy

A fact from Indra Lal Roy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 September 2005. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Indra Lal Roy of the Royal Air Force became India's first flying ace after he achieved 10 victories in thirteen days during World War I? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/September.

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Just to note that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission list his name as Indrulal L Roy but the General Register Office death index has Indra L Roy - MilborneOne 21:38, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The latter, i.e. Indra Lal Roy is the correct name, as per Bengali naming style. --Ragib 04:54, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 04:04, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Roy's nephew is Subroto Mujkherjee. If anyone can confirm that Roy is a Brahmo too, kindly add this article to Category:Brahmo. Yvantanguy (talk) 12:45, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, all,

This may sound like niggling, but several other World War I aces were born in India, as may be seen at List of World War I flying aces from India. All but Roy were of Anglo-Saxon heritage; they were apparently born into the family of British colonists. This leaves Roy as the only ethnic Indian ace, but arguably not the only Indian ace. This issue should be addressed somehow in Roy's bio, in the interests of accuracy.

Georgejdorner (talk) 14:49, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

He never joined the British Indian Army. He joined the British Army's RFC. 119.236.89.59 (talk) 21:22, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]