Awarded: July 1936 (BR1)
Blazon: The Numeral I Gules winged Or
Link: The squadron originally used as its badge a figure 1 on the national marking with a laurel wreath and between two wings.
Motto: Latin: In omnibus princeps – First in all things
History: Formed Farnborough 13 May 1912 as RFC Sqn. Remains current (2016)
Commissioned by A J & A N Mummery, in Memory of all air & ground crew who served with the squadron.
Battle Honours:
- Western Front 1915-18
- Ypres 1915
- Somme 1916
- Independent Force & Germany 1918
- France & Low Countries 1939-40
- Battle of Britain 1940
- Fortress Europe 1942-44
- France & Germany 1944-45
- South Atlantic 1982
- Neuve Chappelle
- Loos
- Arras
- Ypres 1917
- Lys
- Amiens
- Somme 1918
- Hindenburg Line
- Channel & North Sea 1941-45
- Home Defence 1940-45
- Arnhem
- Normandy 1944
- Biscay 1944-45
- Rhine.
- Note: Awarded ‘Iraq 2003’ after completion of the artwork
Further Reading ….
No. 1 Squadron
Michael Shaw
Ian Allan, 1986
Hardback 192pp