"[1] However, a shortage of pilots resulted in a change in policy, and a handful of Indian military pilots served during that war as officers of the Royal Flying Corps and later the Royal Air Force, rather than as officers of the Indian Army.
Jeejeebhoy held an FAI accredited Aviator Certificate while undergoing training with the RFC.
He completed his flying training at Stinson School at San Antonio, Texas on 2 May 1916 and held American Aviator certificate #495.
[2][3] Jeejeebhoy was promoted to temporary honorary 2nd lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on the General List on 6 November 1916.
In 1920 he was given an honorary commission as captain and may have served in the Air Ministry of the British government in the early 1920s.