No. 1 Squadron RAF
Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox military unit Number 1 Squadron, also known as No. 1 (Fighter) Squadron, is a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was the first squadron to fly a VTOL aircraft.<ref name="aoa">Template:Cite web</ref> It currently operates Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth.<ref name="aoa"/>
The squadron motto, In omnibus princeps ("First in all things") reflects the squadron's status as the RAF's oldest unit, having been involved in almost every major British military operation from the First World War to the present time. These include the Second World War, Suez Crisis, Falklands War, Kosovo War, and Operation Telic (Iraq).
History
Early years (1878–1918)
No. 1 Squadron's origins go back to 1878 when its predecessor, No. 1 Balloon Company, was formed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich as part of the Balloon Section.<ref name="1squadron">Template:Cite web</ref> On 1 April 1911 the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers was created. The battalion initially consisted of two companies, with No. 1 Company, Air Battalion taking responsibility for lighter than air flying. The first Officer Commanding was Captain E. M. Maitland.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
On 13 May 1912, with the establishment of the Royal Flying Corps, No. 1 Company of the Air Battalion was redesignated No. 1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. No. 1 Squadron was one of the original three Royal Flying Corps squadrons. Maitland continued as the new squadron's Officer Commanding and he was promoted to major several days after the establishment of the squadron. It retained the airships Beta and Gamma, adding Delta and Eta, as well as kites and a few spherical balloons. However, in October 1913 a sudden decision was made to transfer all the airships to the Naval Wing of the RFC (which became the Royal Naval Air Service by Admiralty dictat, not Cabinet decision, on 1 July 1914). While retaining kites 1 Squadron was reorganised as an 'aircraft park' for the British Expeditionary Force.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
On 1 May 1914, Major Charles Longcroft was appointed as the new squadron commander. Apart from a few weeks as a supernumerary in August and September 1914, Longcroft continued as the squadron commander until January 1915.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The squadron was reformed as an aircraft squadron in August 1914, and equipped with a mixture of Avro 504s and Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.8s, crossed over to France on 7 March 1915,<ref name="Famous Fighters p10">Halley 1971, p.10.</ref> under the command of Major Geoffrey Salmond, later Chief of the Air Staff.<ref>Franks and O'Connor 2000, pp.3, 7</ref> It operated mainly in the reconnaissance role, with a few single seat fighters for escort purposes.<ref name="Famous Fighters p10"/> The squadron was soon thrown into action, taking part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915, and moved to Balleul at the end of the month, remaining there until March 1918, operating from an airfield next to the town's Asylum.<ref>Franks and O'Connor 2000, pp. 3–4</ref><ref name="Famous Fighters p28">Halley 1971, p. 28.</ref> In April–May 1915, the squadron flew reconnaissance missions during the Second Battle of Ypres.<ref>Franks and O'Connor 2000, p. 5</ref> On 19 August, Salmond was replaced as commander of the squadron by Major Philip Joubert de la Ferté, later an Air Chief Marshal.<ref>Franks and O'Connor 2000, pp. 7, 9</ref> By October 1915, the squadron had re-equipped with a mixture of various Morane-Saulnier types, with Morane Parasols (Types L and LA<ref>Bruce 1982, pp. 290, 292, 294, 296</ref>) in the Corps Reconnaissance role and Morane-Saulnier N single-seat fighters.<ref>Franks and O'Connor 2000, p. 8</ref> The squadron supplemented its Parasols with more modern Morane-Saulnier P parasols and Morane-Saulnier BB biplanes in 1916,<ref>Bruce 1982, pp. 305, 312</ref> although the last LA remained with the squadron until 1917.<ref>Bruce 1982, p. 295</ref> The squadron became a dedicated fighter squadron on 1 January 1917, flying Nieuport 17s and Nieuport 27.<ref name="Famous Fighters p10"/>
The obsolete Nieuports were replaced by more modern S.E.5as in January 1918. On incorporation into the RAF on 1 April 1918 the squadron kept its numeral; No 1 Squadron of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was displaced to become No. 201 Squadron RAF.<ref group="note">The war diary of No. 1 Squadron held by the Australian War Memorial, starts in January 1918.</ref>
No. 1 Squadron had among its ranks no fewer than 31 flying aces. They include Robert A. Birkbeck, Quintin Brand (later Air Vice Marshal), Douglas Cameron, William Charles Campbell, Percy Jack Clayson, Edwin Cole, Philip Fullard (later Air Commodore), Eustace Grenfell, Louis Fleeming Jenkin, Tom Hazell, Harold Albert Kullberg, Charles Lavers, Francis Magoun, Guy Borthwick Moore, Gordon Olley, Harry Rigby, William Wendell Rogers and William Rooper.<ref>Shores, Franks & Guest 1990, p. 30</ref>
Interwar period (1919–1938)
The squadron returned to the UK from France in March 1919, being formally disbanded on 20 January 1920. On the next day it reformed at Risalpur in the North West Frontier of India (now part of Pakistan), flying the Sopwith Snipe and from January 1920. It moved to Hinaidi near Baghdad in Iraq in May 1921, to carry out policing duties, retaining its Snipes,<ref name="Famous Fighters p12">Halley 1971, p.12.</ref> although it also received one Bristol Jupiter engined Nieuport Nighthawk for evaluation.<ref name="Famous Fighters p15">Halley 1971, p.15.</ref> It remained in Iraq, carrying out strafing and bombing against hostile tribal forces until November 1926 when it was disbanded.<ref name="Famous Fighters p12-15">Halley 1971, pp.12–15.</ref>
In early 1927 it was reformed at RAF Tangmere, Sussex as a Home Defence Fighter Squadron, equipped with the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin.<ref name="Famous Fighters p15"/> After receiving the Hawker Fury Mk.1 in February 1932, the squadron gained a reputation for aerobatics, giving displays throughout the United Kingdom and at the Zürich International Air Meeting in July 1937, where its display impressed but it was clear that it was outclassed by the German Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Dornier Do 17 also displayed at Zurich. The squadron re-equipped with the Hawker Hurricane Mk.I in October 1938.<ref name="Famous Fighters p16">Halley 1971, p.16.</ref>
Second World War (1939–1945)
On the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 the squadron was deployed to France as part of the RAF Advanced Air Striking Force. In October it flew over enemy territory for the first time and soon claimed its first victory, shooting down a Dornier Do 17 on 31 October.<ref name="Famous Fighters p20">Halley 1971, p.20.</ref> Further successes were made during the Phoney War, until the Battle of France erupted in May 1940. Within a week the squadron was bombed out of its base at Berry-au-Bac, north-west of Paris. A series of retreats followed, ending only when the squadron evacuated from France on 18 June,<ref name="Famous Fighters p20-1">Halley 1971, pp. 20–21.</ref> with a return to Tangmere on 23 June.<ref name="Famous Fighters p28"/>
In August 1940 the squadron entered the Battle of Britain and was heavily engaged until 9 September, when the squadron was transferred to No. 12 Group and sent to RAF Wittering to refit, rest and recuperate.<ref name=how>Template:Cite web</ref>
It returned to No. 11 Group in early 1941 and was employed in fighter sweeps and bomber escort duties. In February, it began "Rhubarb" (low-level sweeps over occupied territory) and night flying missions, and was re-equipped with the Hurricane IIA. In this period its pilots included Karel Kuttelwascher DFC, who was the RAF's highest-scoring night intruder pilot and highest-scoring Free Czechoslovak pilot.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The squadron carried out night intruder patrols until July 1942, when it was re-equipped with the Hawker Typhoon fighter-bomber and relocated to RAF Acklington, Northumberland where it reverted to daytime operations.<ref name=how/>
The squadron was equipped with the Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX in April 1944, and in June began anti-V1 patrols, shooting down 39 flying bombs. Missions were also flown over the Falaise Gap, strafing targets of opportunity. Later in the year it reverted to bomber escort duties, based at Maldegem. It was involved in supporting Operation Market Garden : the parachute drops into the Netherlands, and later in support of the Allied counter-offensive in the Ardennes. The squadron dropped 250 lb bombs on to 'Key Points' (KPs), directed by radar to counter the adverse weather conditions. In May 1945 it converted to the Spitfire Mk.XXI, but these were only used operationally to cover landings on the Channel Islands.<ref name="1squadron"/>
Post-war (1946–1968)
In 1946, the Squadron returned to Tangmere and took delivery of its first jet aircraft, the Gloster Meteor. In October 1948, Major Robin Olds, USAF, under the U.S. Air Force/Royal Air Force exchange program, was posted in and flying the Gloster Meteor jet fighter. He eventually served as commander of the Squadron at RAF Station Tangmere, an unusual posting for a non-commonwealth foreigner in peacetime.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
The Squadron was then equipped with the Hawker Hunter F.5, which were flown from RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus during the 1956 Suez Crisis. The squadron disbanded on 23 June 1958. However, on 1 July 1958 the squadron was reformed by re-numbering No. 263 Squadron at RAF Stradishall.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It then moved to RAF Waterbeach from where, flying the Hunter FGA.9, it operated in the ground attack role as part of No. 38 Group. The Squadron continued in this role for the next eight years, operating out of Waterbeach and then RAF West Raynham. Flight Lieutenant Alan Pollock of No. 1 Squadron was responsible for the infamous and very unofficial flying display on the 50th anniversary of the RAF in 1968.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Harrier (1969–2011)
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Under the command of Squadron Leader Bryan Baker, the squadron became the world's first operator of a V/STOL aircraft with the arrival of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier in 1969, declared operational the following year.<ref name="aoa"/>
- Falklands War
A detachment from No. 1 Squadron was deployed aboard the Carrier Battle Group (TG 317.8) during the Falklands War, operating from HMS Hermes after being hastily adapted for shipboard use.<ref name="DunsfoldMod"> Harrier GR.3: ferry & modification for Falklands service – Dunsfold Airfield History. Retrieved 2025‑08‑01.</ref>
Six GR.3s were delivered to the South Atlantic aboard Template:SS, arriving at Hermes between 18 and 20 May 1982. On 1 June 1982, two more completed a 3,800‑mile (6,100 km) ferry flight from Ascension Island, supported by RAF Victor tanker aircraft. A second ferry flight followed on 8 June 1982, adding two more Harriers to the Task Force.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Key Missions
- 21 May – Flt Lt Jeff Glover’s Harrier GR.3 (XZ972) was shot down by a Blowpipe SAM during reconnaissance over Port Howard he ejected safely and was captured<ref name="XZ972" />
- 20–24 May – Fox Bay & Goose Green support - First combat missions included cluster‑bomb strikes on fuel dumps at Fox Bay and armed recce over Goose Green and Weddell, often under intense small-arms and AA fire<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- 27 May – Sqn Ldr Bob Iveson, flying XZ988, was hit by Argentine 20 mm cannon near Goose Green and shot down; he survived ejection and was later rescued<ref name="XZ988">Naval-History.net: Harrier GR.3 XZ988 shot down 27 May 1982</ref>
- 13 June – First RAF Laser-guided bomb (LGB) mission - Wg Cdr Peter Squire flew Harrier XZ997 on the first RAF LGB combat mission, under the guidance of a ground-based FAC, striking an abandoned company HQ on Mount Tumbledown.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
No. 1 Squadron flew 126 sorties, averaging six sorties per aircraft per day. They supported operations on Mounts; Harriet, Longdon, Tumbledown and Sapper Hill.<ref name="OnTarget1SqnSupport"> Falklands War: No. 1 Squadron supported operations on Mounts Harriet, Longdon, Tumbledown & Sapper Hill – On‑Target Aviation. Retrieved 2025‑08‑01.</ref>
Losses during the conflict
| Aircraft type & serial | Pilot | Date | Location | Cause / Weapon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrier GR.3 XZ972 | Flt‑Lt Jeff Glover | 21 May 1982 | Port Howard, West Falkland | Shot down by Blowpipe SAM<ref name="XZ972">Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Harrier GR.3 XZ988 | Sqn Ldr Bob Iveson | 27 May 1982 | Near Goose Green | Hit by 20mm cannon AA fire<ref name="XZ988" /> |
| Harrier GR.3 XZ963 | Sqn Ldr Jerry Pook | 30 May 1982 | West of Port Stanley | Damaged by small-arms fire, crashed (fuel exhaustion) <ref name="XZ963">Naval-History.net: Harrier GR.3 XZ963 crash 30 May 1982</ref> |
| Harrier GR.3 XZ989 | Wg Cdr Peter Squire | 8 June 1982 | Port San Carlos area | Mechanical failure on landing <ref name="XZ989">Naval-History.net: Harrier GR.3 XZ989 damaged on landing 8 June 1982</ref> |
- Harrier II
The squarden replaced its first generation Harriers with Harrier IIs from 23 November 1988, being declared fully operational on the Harrier GR.5 on 2 November 1989.<ref name="Evans p123">Evans 1998, p.123.</ref> The squadron was the subject of an episode of the BBC documentary series Defence of the Realm before and during its participation in the Bosnian War as part of NATO's Operation Deny Flight.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref> During the Kosovo war the Squadron flew sorties as part of NATO's Operation Allied Force.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
No. 1 Squadron left the "home of the Harrier" at RAF Wittering for RAF Cottesmore on 28 July 2000.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Cottesmore became home to all operational RAF Harrier squadrons – No. 20 (Reserve) Squadron, later renumbered as No. 4 (R) Squadron, the Harrier Operational Conversion Unit remained at Wittering. The squadrons both flew missions during the Iraq War and were awarded the "Iraq 2003" battle honour.<ref>Template:Cite hansard</ref>
The squadron was awarded a battle honour in March 2020, recognising its role in the War in Afghanistan.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
One outcome of the Strategic Defence and Security Review by the coalition government in 2010 was the decision to take the RAF's Harriers out of service almost immediately. All Harrier units, including No. 1 (F) Squadron, ceased Harrier flying on 15 December 2010, with No. 1 (F) Squadron formally disbanding on 28 January 2011.<ref name="aoa"/>
Typhoon (2012–present)
On 15 September 2012, the squadron reformed on the Eurofighter Typhoon at RAF Leuchars.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="leuchars reform">Template:Cite web</ref> The squadron participated in multiple exercises in foreign countries including Exercise Shaheen Star in the United Arab Emirates during January 2013 and Exercise Bersama Shield in Malaysia during March 2013.<ref name="AFMAPR13">Template:Cite book</ref>
On 8 September 2014, No. 1 (F) Squadron relocated to RAF Lossiemouth, to operate alongside No. 6<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and XV (R) squadrons, as well as "D" Flight, No. 202 Squadron (SAR) and No. 5 Force Protection Wing.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
On 14 November 2019 the squadron deployed 4 fighters to Keflavik Air Base as part of the NATO Air Policing, Iceland. The squadron also deployed an additional 100 personnel to support the squadron and forces based in Iceland.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Aircraft operated
- Avro 504 (1915–1916)
- B.E.8 (1915–1916)
- Morane Parasol (1915–1916)
- Nieuport 17 (1916–1917)
- Nieuport 27 (1917–1918)
- SE5a (1918–1920)
- Sopwith Snipe (1920–1927)
- Armstrong Whitworth Siskin (1927–1933)
- Hawker Fury (1933–1937)
- Hawker Hurricane (1937–1943)
- Hawker Typhoon (1943–1944)
- Supermarine Spitfire (1944–1950)
- Gloster Meteor F.8 (1950–1957)
- Hawker Hunter F.5/F.6/FGA.9/T.7 (1957–1970)
- Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1 and GR.3 (1969–1989)
- British Aerospace Harrier GR5, GR7 and GR9 (1988–2010)
- Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 (2012 – present)
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Heritage
Badge and motto
No.1 Squadron's badge features a winged numeral "1" and was approved by King Edward VIII in July 1936. It is the authorised version of an earlier badge used during the First World War which had a "1" on the national roundel marking with a laurel wreath and two Royal Flying Corps wing.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The squadron's motto is Template:Language with name/for.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Call signs
As of March 2025, aircraft operated by No. 1 Squadron use the following peacetime air traffic control call signs within UK airspace: Jedi, Psycho, Stampede, Tribal, Vega, and Winston.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Battle honours
No. 1 Squadron has received the following battle honours. Those marked with an asterisk (*) may be emblazoned on the squadron standard.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Western Front (1915–1918)*
- Ypres (1915)*
- Neuve Chapelle (1915)
- Loos (1915)
- Somme (1916)
- Arras (1917)
- Ypres (1917)
- Lys (1918)
- Amiens (1918)
- Somme (1918)
- Hindenburg Line (1916–1917)
- Independent Force and Germany (1918)*
- Kurdistan (1922–1925)
- Iraq (1923–1925)
- France and Low Countries (1939–1940)*
- Battle of Britain (1940)*
- Channel and North Sea (1941–1945)
- Home Defence (1940–1945)
- Fortress Europe (1941–1944)*
- Arnhem (1944)*
- Normandy (1944)
- France and Germany (1944–1945)*
- Biscay (1944–1945)
- Rhine (1945)
- South Atlantic (1982)*
- Kosovo (1999)*
- Iraq (2003)*
- Afghanistan (2001–2014) Template:Div col end
Commanding officers
List of commanding officers of No. 1 Squadron, including date of appointment, sourced from Halley,<ref name="Famous Fighters p28" /> Shaw<ref>Shaw 1971, pp.245–246.</ref><ref>Shaw 1986, p. 188.</ref> and Franks & O'Connor.<ref>Franks and O'Connor 2000, p. 244.</ref> Template:Div col
- Major E M Maitland (13 May 1912)
- Major C A H Longcroft (1 May 1914)
- Major W G H Salmond (28 January 1915)
- Major P B Joubert de la Ferté (19 August 1915)
- Major G F Pretyman (24 November 1915)
- Major G C St P de Dombasle (24 December 1916)
- Major A Barton-Adams (20 June 1917)
- Major W E Young (3 August 1918)
- Squadron Leader J O Andrews (21 January 1920)
- Squadron Leader J B Graham (18 September 1920)
- Squadron Leader G G A Williams (10 November 1922)
- Squadron Leader E O Grenfell (8 October 1923)
- Squadron Leader E D Atkinson (25 May 1924)
- Squadron Leader C.N. Lowe (19 April 1926)
- Squadron Leader E D Atkinson (11 April 1927)
- Squadron Leader E O Grenfell (19 March 1928)
- Squadron Leader C B S Spackman (27 July 1931)
- Squadron Leader R W Chappell (21 November 1933)
- Squadron Leader C W Hill (1 October 1934)
- Flight Lieutenant T N McEvoy (acting) (31 January 1936)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Squadron Leader C W Hill (1 December 1936)
- Squadron Leader F R D Swain (12 April 1937)
- Squadron Leader I A Bertram (15 January 1938)
- Squadron Leader P J H Halahan (17 April 1939)
- Squadron Leader D A Pemberton (24 May 1940)
- Squadron Leader M H Brown (10 November 1940)
- Squadron Leader R E P Brooker (23 April 1941)
- Squadron Leader J A F MacLachlan (3 November 1941)
- Squadron Leader R C Wilkinson (31 July 1942)
- Squadron Leader A Zweigbergh (30 May 1943)
- Squadron Leader J Checketts (3 April 1944)
- Squadron Leader H P Lardner-Burke (29 April 1944)
- Squadron Leader D G S R Cox (11 January 1945)
- Squadron Leader R S Nash (21 April 1945)
- Squadron Leader H R Allen (9 January 1946)
- Squadron Leader C H MacFie (26 October 1946)
- Flight Lieutenant N H D Ramsey (acting) (7 May 1947)
- Squadron Leader T R Burne (15 July 1947)
- Major R Olds (USAF) (4 February 1949)
- Squadron Leader T R Burne (1 October 1949)
- Major D F Smith (USAF) (10 January 1950)
- Squadron Leader J L W Ellacombe (18 August 1950)
- Squadron Leader R B Morison (21 November 1952)
- Squadron Leader D I Smith (27 July 1953)
- Squadron Leader F W Lister (1 December 1953)
- Flight Lieutenant H Irving (acting) (1 June 1955)
- Squadron Leader R S Kingsford (8 August 1956)
- Squadron Leader L de Garis, AFC (5 July 1958)
- Squadron Leader J J Phipps (1 December 1958)
- Squadron Leader P V Pledger (1 January 1961)
- Squadron Leader F L Travers-Smith (1 January 1963)
- Squadron Leader D C G Brook (28 December 1964)
- Squadron Leader G. Jones (1 November 1966)
- Squadron Leader L A B Baker (20 September 1968)
- Wing Commander J A Mansell (10 April 1969)
- Squadron Leader L A B Baker (21 May 1969)
- Wing Commander D Allison (4 August 1969)
- Squadron Leader L A B Baker (October 1969)
- Wing Commander K W Hayr (1 January 1970)
- Wing Commander E J E Smith (6 January 1972)
- Wing Commander P P W Taylor (3 December 1973)
- Wing Commander J G Saye (9 July 1976)
- Wing Commander R B Duckett (17 July 1978)
- Wing Commander P T Squire (26 March 1981)
- Wing Commander J D L Feesey (23 December 1983)
- Wing Commander I M Stewart (13 June 1986)
- Wing Commander I R Harvey (3 October 1988)
- Wing Commander C C N Burwell (17 May 1991)
- Wing Commander D Walker (29 April 1994)
- Wing Commander M A Leakey (18 March 1996)
- Wing Commander I Cameron (acting) (26 November 1997)
- Wing Commander A Golledge (9 January 1998)
- Wing Commander S M Bell (26 October 1999)
- Wing Commander M E Sampson (June 2004)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Wing Commander K A Lewis (1 November 2006)
- Wing Commander D F Haines (31 October 2008)
- Wing Commander M Flewin (15 September 2012)<ref name="leuchars reform" />
- Wing Commander M Sutton (9 October 2014)
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
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