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Rear Admiral
K. R. Nair
Nickname Jerry[1]
Born 1915
Died 2007
Allegiance British Raj Red Ensign British Raj
Flag of India India
Service/branch Flag of Imperial India Royal Indian Navy
Naval Ensign of India Indian Navy
Years of service 1942–1971
Rank

British Royal Navy (sleeves) OF-7

Rear Admiral
Commands held Eastern Naval Command
Flag Officer, East Coast
INS Venduruthy
INS Valsura
22nd Destroyer Squadron
INS Rana
Battles/wars World War II

Rear Admiral Kesavapillai Ramakrishnan "Jerry" Nair (1915–2007) was a former Flag officer in the Indian Navy who served as the first Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command.

Career[]

Early career[]

Nair was commissioned in the Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RINVR) in 1942,[2] and was promoted temporary acting lieutenant on 8 April 1943.[3] In 1944, he attended a specialist anti-submarine course in the United Kingdom.[2] On 21 January 1945, he was posted to HMIS Machlimar at Bombay, whose executive officer was Lieutenant-Commander Ram Dass Katari.[4]

Post-Independence[]

Nair was promoted to acting commander (paid) on 31 December 1949 and to substantive commander on 30 June 1951.[5][6] On 3 January 1955, he was appointed CO, INS Venduruthy at Cochin with the acting rank of captain,[7] receiving promotion to the substantive rank on 31 December 1955.[8] He held several important commands, including CO of INS Rana, captain of the 22nd Destroyer Squadron and INS Valsura at Jamnagar.[2] He was appointed Chief of Personnel (COP) at Naval Headquarters on 20 November 1959, in the rank of commodore,[9] and served until 1963, when he was appointed chief of staff to the Flag Officer Commanding Indian Fleet (FOCIF),[2] serving under Rear Admirals Adhar Kumar Chatterji and Benjamin Abraham Samson. In June 1965, he was appointed to a second tenure as Chief of Personnel and was promoted rear admiral in August when the post was raised to flag rank.[2]

In July 1967, Nair was appointed the first Flag Officer East Coast, based at Vishakhapatnam.[10] Eight months later, on 1 March 1968, he became the first Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command (FOC-in-C, ENC) when the post was upgraded. After serving for three years, he retired from the Navy in March 1971.[11] He died in 2007.[1]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Govil, Jyotsna (2012). "Admiral "Jerry" Nair". Noida: The Navy Foundation. https://www.navyfoundationmumbaicharter.in/pdf/finalqd_2012.pdf. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Naval Promotions to Flag Rank". 17 August 1965. https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1965-AUG-DECC-MIN-OF-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1965-08-17_026.pdf. 
  3. "Officers of The Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve". The Navy List: June 1944. H.M. Government. 1943. pp. 1977. https://archive.org/details/navylistjun1944v2grea/page/1976/mode/2up. 
  4. "The Royal Indian Navy". The Navy List: July 1945. H.M. Government. 1945. pp. 3443. https://archive.org/details/navylistjul1945v3grea/page/3442/mode/2up. 
  5. "Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch)". The Gazette of India. 14 January 1950. p. 93. https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1950/O-2343-1950-0000-108637.pdf. 
  6. "Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch)". The Gazette of India. 14 July 1951. p. 133. https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1951/O-2307-1951-0028-107893.pdf. 
  7. "Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch)". The Gazette of India. 29 October 1955. p. 214. https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1955/O-2199-1955-0044-100843.pdf. 
  8. "Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch)". The Gazette of India. 14 April 1956. p. 74. 
  9. "Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch)". The Gazette of India. 9 April 1960. p. 87. http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1960/O-1952-1960-0015-87969.pdf. 
  10. "Admiral Nair - New Flag Officer, East Coast". 17 July 1967. http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1967-JULY-DEC-DEFENCE-VOL-2/PDF/DEF-1967-07-17_015.pdf. 
  11. "Admiral Krishnan Takes Over as FOC-in-C Eastern Naval Command". 28 February 1971. https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1971-JAN-AUG-MIN-OF-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1971-02-28_096.pdf. 
Military offices
New title
Post upgraded from Flag Officer East Coast
Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command
1968-1971
Succeeded by
Nilakanta Krishnan
Preceded by
Douglas St. John Cameron
(as Commodore East Coast)
Flag Officer East Coast
1967-1968
Post upgraded to FOC-in-C Eastern Naval Command
Preceded by
Douglas St. John Cameron
Chief of Personnel (second tenure)
1965-1967
Succeeded by
Jal Cursetji
Preceded by
G. S. Kapoor
Chief of Personnel (first tenure)
1959-1963
Succeeded by
Douglas St. John Cameron
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