StopStart,
In our little Nissen hut at Valley in '50 we had an old two-blade propellor over the anteroom mantelpiece as an ornament - I have seen the same in other messes. This may well have been carved by some wartime Canadian (or American, for their "bald eagle" looks much the same bird) for that purpose.
****ehawks are everywhere in India; they are a menace in the air, but are esteemed (and, I believe, were protected by law in the days of the Raj) for their hygienic value as scavengers of dead animals (and humans, on the Parsee "Towers of Silence").
They have unlovely table manners, always starting at the anus as the best bit.
Almost certainly they got the name from the British troops out there on that account.
Danny42C