Marshal of Indian Air Force Arjan Singh paying homage to former president APJ Abdul Kalam at Air Force Station Palam in New Delhi on 28, July 2015. Photo: Suresh JNew Delhi: Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh breathed his last on Saturday. Here is a timeline of his life.
» April 15, 1919 – Born in Lyallpur, present day Faislabad in Pakistan
» 1938 – At 19 years was selected for a pilot training course at Royal Air Force College, Cranwell
» 1939 – Training cut short by World War II. Joined Sqdn 1 in Ambala
» 1943 – Became Commanding Officer Squadron 1
» 1944 – Led his squadron to Imphal against the Japanese during the Arakan Campaign
» 1944 – Received the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) for leading the squadron during Imphal Campaign by Lord Mountbatten
» August 15, 1947 – Led the fly-past of over a hundred IAF aircraft over the red fort
» August 1, 1964 – Arjan Singh took over as the Chief of Air Staff in the rank of Air Marshal
» 1965 – Arjan Singh was awarded the Padma Vibhushan for his leadership of IAF during the '65 war with Pakistan
» August 1969 – Retired from the Indian Air Force after serving for three decades
» 1971 – Appointed India's Ambassador to Switzerland
» 1974 – Appointed Indian High Commissioner to Kenya
» 1980s – At the height of militancy in Punjab he was part of a 5-member committee that would go door to door in the state and try to bridge the differences between Hindus & Sikhs
» 1989 – Janata government appoints Arjan Singh as the L-G of Delhi as an attempt to apply balm to the wounds of the Sikh community
» 2002 – Conferred with the rank of the Marshal of the Air Force making him the first and the only 'Five Star' rank officer with the Indian Air Force
» April, 2011 – Wife Teji Singh passes away at the age of 80
