Abstract
Abstract Frank Anthony opposed Partition at the Sapru Committee, predicting fanaticism and war. The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–8 erupted within months of independence. Although darker-skinned individuals were barred from Royal Air Force/RAF flight crews, many Anglo-Indians joined. Contrastingly, the nascent Indian Air Force/IAF offered flight training and entry at officer level. Therefore, pilots like Wing Commander Trevor Keelor, and his brother, future Air Marshal Denzil Keelor, were immediately ready for the First Kashmir War, being the first pair of brothers to receive the Vir Chakra, with Trevor having scored the first air kill (a Pakistani Sabre fighter) for independent India. Again in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (the Second Kashmir War), Anglo-Indians engaged in the fiercest dogfights ever in the Indian subcontinent. While Chief Marshall La Fontaine and Admiral Pereira, rose to become heads of the Indian Air Force and Navy, Lieutenant Mervyn Leslie Middlecoat of the Pakistani Air Force/PAF, was twice awarded the Sitara-e-Jurat (Star of Courage), celebrated as the "Defender of Karachi" and with Middlecoat Shaheed Park, Islamabad. The Frank Anthony Public Schools provided increased employment opportunities while Anglo-Indian women added the emerging fields of travel and tourism, telecommunications, and retail to their existing roles as nurses and teachers.
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