List of World War I flying aces from India

This is a list of World War I flying aces from British India.

• Captain Lawrence Coombes, born in Madras, garnered 15 aerial victories as a Sopwith Camel pilot for the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force.
• Captain Maurice Douglas Guest Scott was credited with 12 aerial victories flying as both observer and pilot.
• Captain (later Squadron Leader) Edward Dawson Atkinson, of the British Indian Army, was credited with 10 aerial victories in two combat tours, one while flying a Nieuport and another flying a Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a.
• Captain Indra Lal Roy was credited with 10 aerial victories, within two weeks in July 1918, while piloting a Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a in No. 40 Squadron RAF. He is the only Indian ace of the war.
• Captain (later Group Captain) Arthur Peck of No. 111 Squadron RFC was credited with eight aerial victories.
• Captain Douglas Carbery scored six confirmed aerial victories while serving as an aerial observer in various squadrons.
• Lieutenant Thomas Cecil Silwood Tuffield had six aerial victories confirmed while flying as an observer in 48 Squadron's Bristol F.2 Fighters.
• Captain George M. Cox scored five aerial victories as a Sopwith Camel pilot for No. 65 Squadron RAF.

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