Officers Commanding

(Includes current serving and ex serving officers)

WW1 – The Royal Flying Corps	Post WW2  –
1915 2nd Lt F C V Laws RFC	1947 Wg Cdr H C Westwood OBE
1917 Lt C Porri RFC	1950 Wg Cdr E T Scott
1917 Maj P R Burchall RFC	1953 Wg Cdr G J Buxton MBE*
	1955 Sqn Ldr S Hoskin
The Royal Air Force	1955 Sqn Ldr J W Berry
	1959 Sqn Ldr P R Mayle
1920 Sqn Ldr A R Cooper	1961 Sqn Ldr F R J Richardson DFM
1922 Sqn Ldr W J Guilfoyle OBE MC*	1964 Sqn Ldr J E Bellingham AFC
1924 Sqn Ldr F C V Laws OBE	1968 Sqn Ldr K M Hall
1930 Wg Cdr A H Steele-Perkins OBE
1932 Wg Cdr H M Probin DSO	The Joint School of Photography
1932 Wg Cdr R H Neville OBE MC
1933 Wg Cdr F C V Laws OBE	1972 Sqn Ldr W H P Brown
1933 Wg Cdr G Bowman DSO MC DSO	1974 Lt Cdr T Marriott RN
1934 Wg Cdr M L Taylor AFC	1974 Sqn Ldr A A Blain
1936 Wg Cdr C Porri	1976 Sqn Ldr G P Proctor
1938 Sqn Ldr J Silvester	1978 Sqn Ldr G C Ashman
	1982 Sqn Ldr G J Brown
WW2 – No1 and No 2 SOP	1985 Lt Cdr M H Larcombe RN
	1989 Sqn Ldr B A Broad
1939 Sqn Ldr R C Sturgiss	1991 Lt Cdr C L Hamlin RN
1940 Wg Cdr H G Barrett	1993 Sqn Ldr V Kinnin
1941 Wg Cdr A E Taylor	1996 Sqn Ldr S Ivory
1942 Wg Cdr P R Burchall OBE	1998 Mr J D Ness
1943 Sqn Ldr W H Dunton
	The Defence School of Photography
(No 2 SOP)
	2000 Mr G H Sellars
1945 Wg Cdr C G R Lewis	2010 Mr J J Jarvis
* See  “Roll of Honour” Colonel T E Lawrence