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Thomas Elmhirst

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Air Marshal Sir Thomas Walker Elmhirst, KBE, CB, AFC, DL was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in the first half of the 20th century and the first commander-in-chief of the newly independent Indian Air Force where he organised the funeral of Mahatma Gandhi following his assassination in 1948.

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