Flying Officer Dinshaw Edulijee received the AFC from what auxiliary air force of the British Empire?
Dinshaw Eduljee Flying Officer Dinshaw Ferozeshaw Eduljee (1919–1944) was the first pilot of the Indian Air Force, IAF, to receive the Air Force Cross, AFC (on June 1, 1944). Eduljee is presumed to have died after the Hurricane fighter aircraft he was flying crashed in action behind Japanese lines in Burma (today's Myanmar). The circumstances and time of his death are not known.
Air Efficiency Award The Air Efficiency Award, post-nominal letters AE for officers, was instituted in 1942. It could be awarded after ten years of meritorious service to part-time officers, airmen and airwomen in the Auxiliary and Volunteer Air Forces of the United Kingdom and the Territorial Air Forces and Air Force Reserves of the Dominions, the Indian Empire, Burma, the Colonies and Protectorates.