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*[http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/archivaldocs/prg/PRG266_7_1-150_Gilbert_letters_transcript.pdf Letters written by Thomas Gilbert] to his parents and other family members, chiefly from India. State Library of South Australia. [http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:80/record=b2187028~S1 Catalogue link].
:Page 49 30.12.16 Notified he is to be posted to Egypt for training in flying; Page 53 28.1.17 He commences training at Aboukir, Abbasia, Heliopolis; Page 67 23.6.17 Advised he is to be posted to England; Page 75 9 Sept 1917. He receives notice he will be posted to India; Page 82 27.11.17 114th Squadron. R.F.C. [[Lahore]]; Page 92 18.3.18 Transferred to [[Sibi]], Baluchistan The war against the Marris; Page 96 23.4.18 Harnai; Page 97, 6.5.18; The squadron prepare to leave for [[Quetta]]; Page 112 10.11.18 The squadron moves to Lahore.
*Sgt Reginald White, 48 Squadron RAF took part in the Third Anglo-Afghan War. 48 Squadron arrived in India by sea and by June 1919 were based in [[Quetta]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140830133118/https://sgtregnaldwhite.blogspot.com/2010/07/third-anglo-afghan-war.html Sgt Reginald White, 48 Squadron RAF] in the Third Anglo-Afghan War, archived webpage. </ref> 48 Squadron arrived in India by sea and by June 1919 were based in [[Quetta]].
*Charles Frederick Langley (born 1889). He was in India 1920-23 with the Royal Air Force. His final posting was the RAF base at [[Risalpur]], the new home for 27 Squadron. He was in charge of the base’s three pigeon lofts containing several hundred birds and one of his jobs was to teach the pilots how to handle and release the homing pigeons from the aircraft.<ref>
[http://www.maxwall.co.uk/army/info.htm Charles F Langley D C M] and [http://www.maxwall.co.uk/army/gallery.htm Photographs] (retrieved 18 April 2014)</ref>
* John G Walser MC was in India from 1922 to the end of 1925 with the Royal Air Force, including a posting to No. 31 Squadron which was stationed at Dardoni, in Waziristan. He wrote letters to his family detailing his experiences<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131115235904/http://www.davidwalser.com/my-father/ My Father: John G Walser] Scroll down for his account of this period. Family website, now archived, (retrieved on 18 April 2014)</ref>
*Listen to the [httphttps://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80008691 1975 Interview with John William Easton], British NCO who served with 1 Wing, RAF at Miranshah Fort, 1928-1930 including contact with T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). Imperial War Museums
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131116020854/http://www.rafcaa.org.uk/e29Memoirs.html Memoirs: Malcolm Macdougall]. He was posted in January 1938 to 20 A.C. Squadron, Northwest Frontier, where he spent two years at [[Peshawar]] and one year at [[Kohat]], with occasional detachments to Miramshah (Miranshah?). In 1941 he was posted to 27 Squadron [[Risalpur]] which later went to Singapore and Malaysia, then Ceylon. Website of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130916105607/http://www.rafcaa.org.uk:80/index.html RAF Cranwell Apprentices Association], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130820001224/http://www.rafcaa.org.uk/e29.html 29th Entry], all archived webpages.
*Listen to the [httphttps://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80000869 1977 interview with Wilfred Randall Page] British aircraftman and photographer served with RAF in GB 1933-1935; served with Photographic Section, 28 Sqdn, RAF at Ambala and in Waziristan, India, 1935-1939 Imperial War Museums*Listen to the [httphttps://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80030649 2008 interview with Gawain Thomas Alexander 'Gavin’ Douglas] , born 1914. British officer served in India, with British and Indian Army, 1935-1940; trained as pilot with RAF in India, 1941-1942; served as flying instructor with RAF in India, 1943-1944, served with 28 and 60 Sqdns, RAF in Burma, 1/1945-5/1945; commanded 34 Sqdn in Burma, 5/1945-10/1945; commanded 28 Sqdn, RAF in Burma and Malaya, 1945- 1946; commanded 152 Sqdn, RAF on North West Frontier of India, 1946-1947 Imperial War Museums.
*[http://storyofwar.com/about A Story of War] Colin Diarmid Campbell Dunford Wood, kept war diaries continuously from early 1939. Initially with the 1st Battalion [[17th Regiment of Foot| Leicestershire Regiment]] in [[North West Frontier Campaigns|Waziristan]], he later joined the Royal Air Force, flying in Iraq, India and Burma (where he flew the last Hurricane out, before the advancing Japanese) and Europe.
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11398735/Squadron-Leader-Jack-Storey-obituary.html Squadron Leader Jack Storey - obituary [1915-2015<nowiki>]</nowiki>] 08 February 2015 ''The Telegraph''. He was with No 135 Squadron and fought in the Burma Campaign January 1942 - August 1943, where he accounted for eight Japanese aircraft and was then a gunnery instructor in India for a period.
*[http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/sparkes/index.htm ''The Mumblings of Edward Sparkes''] [http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/sparkes/contents.htm Contents page] Flt Lt Edward D S N Sparkes was in the RAF and arrived in India in the latter part of 1943 in the chapter [http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/sparkes/bombay2.htm Ashore in Bombay]. He subsequently joined X Squadron Royal Indian Air Force and served in Burma until he was invalided back to England in 1945.
*Listen to the [httphttps://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80023169 2003 interview with Jack Gabbutt,] British NCO photographer served with 681 and 81 Sqdns, RAF in India, Burma, Malaya and Java, 1944-1947 Imperial War Museums
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110316145149/https://war-experience.org/collections/air/alliedbrit/woodcock/default.asp W/O Roy Woodcock] was called up in July 1942. Later he was sent to India. Scroll down approximately half way for his account. war-experience.org, now an archived webpage.
*[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20180424062936/https://paradata.org.uk/article/20572/related/27577 Recollections of Sgt Mike Hall, India, 1944-46] paradata.org.uk (retrieved 27 June 2014), now an archived webpage.*"Last stop Karachi 1946!" by John ‘Dusty’ Miller [https://web.archive.org/web/20140624065252/http://www.qissa-khwani.com:80/2012/09/last-stop-karachi-1946.html Part 1], [https://web.archive.org/web/20161221004433/http://www.qissa-khwani.com/2012/09/last-stop-karachi-1946_16.html Part 2]. He was a driver in the RAF and was in India 1945-1947, his last posting in Karachi. www.qissa-khwani.com, now archived.
:'''Indian Air Force'''
*[http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Aircraft/History/901-Wapiti.html A flight of Eagles : The Westland Wapiti in Indian Air Force Service] bharat-rakshak.com
