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CANCELLED 'Hardit Singh Malik - the Flying Sikh' with Stephen Baker

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Stephen Barker” 'Hardit Singh Malik - the Flying Sikh'.  From his arrival in the UK alone in 1912 as a fourteen-year-old, to Balliol College, Oxford and into the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, Hardit Singh Malik lived an extraordinary life, often in the face of great adversity, yet always with with charm and good humour. He playe...


ONLINE: 'Hardit Singh Malik. The Flying Sikh' with Stephen Barker

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From his arrival in the UK alone in 1912 as a fourteen-year-old, to Balliol College, Oxford and into the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, Hardit Singh Malik lived an extraordinary life, often in the face of great adversity, yet always with charm and good humour. He played cricket for Sussex and was an Oxford blue in golf, playing w...


Five RAF Indian Pilots of the Great War - Stephen Barker

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This talk discusses five Indian pilots who served with the RFC / RAF during the Great War.Stephen will particularly focus on Hardit Singh Malik the subject of his book 'The Flying Sikh'. Hardit Singh Malik started his life in Britain as a 14 year old at Eastbourne College, who then  progressed to Balliol College, Oxford. At the start of the war...


The Flying Sikh The Story of a WW1 Fighter Pilot – Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik by Stephen Barker

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Pen & Sword, 2022 £25.00hb, 224pp, including b&w images ISBN: 9781399083294.  Flying Ace, first–class cricketer, golfer, civil servant, diplomat. Hardit Singh Malik was a man of many talents who lived an extraordinarily eventful and interesting life filled with adventure and camaraderie, nicely captured by Stephen Barker. Not unusually f...


‘Hardit Singh Malik – the Flying Sikh’ with Stephen Barker

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From his arrival in the UK alone in 1908 as a fourteen-year-old, to Balliol College, Oxford, Hardit Singh Malik lived an extraordinary life, often in the face of great adversity, yet always with charm and good humour. He rose to become the Indian Ambassador to France after a long and distinguished career in the Indian Civil service, yet always m...