Rear Admiral Kesavapillai Ramakrishnan "Jerry" Nair PVSM (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. He was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) on 26 January 1969,[11] and retired from the Navy in March 1971.[12] He died in 2007.[1]
References
| Military offices
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New title
Post upgraded from Flag Officer East Coast
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Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command
1968-1971
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Succeeded by
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| Preceded by Douglas St. John Cameron
(as Commodore East Coast)
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Flag Officer East Coast
1967-1968
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Post upgraded to FOC-in-C Eastern Naval Command
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| Preceded by Douglas St. John Cameron
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Chief of Personnel (second tenure)
1965-1967
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Succeeded by
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| Preceded by G. S. Kapoor
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Chief of Personnel (first tenure)
1959-1963
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Succeeded by Douglas St. John Cameron
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