Appendix 3

OCs

December 1942	Major Denis Coyle
November 1945	Major Frank McMath
June 1946	Major H.B. ‘Warby’ Warburton
January 1947	Captain Russell Matthews (1914 AOP Flight)
June 1948	Major J.R.S. ‘Jack’ Elmsley
November 1948	Major Stuart Gates
March 1950	Major David Oldman
July 1952	Major L.J. ‘Banger’ Wheeler
June 1953	Major A.F. ‘Sandy’ Robertson
January 1956	Major L.J. ‘Banger’ Wheeler
June 1957	Lieutenant Colonel Brian Storey
February 1960	Lieutenant Colonel John Cresswell
July 1962	Lieutenant Colonel Bob Begbie
March 1965	Lieutenant Colonel Peter Collins
November 1967	Lieutenant Colonel R.J. ‘Dickie’ Parker
November 1968	Lieutenant Colonel Michael Hickey
October 1969	Major Peter Ralph
September 1970	Lieutenant Colonel A.E. ‘Alan’ Woodford
January 1973	Lieutenant Colonel Freddie Legg
August 1973	Lieutenant Colonel Greville Edgecombe
April 1975	Lieutenant Colonel David Swan
June 1977	Major Dick Whidborne
April 1978	Major Chris Pickup
June 1979	Major Stephen Nathan
June 1981	Major Johnny Moss
May 1982	Major Colin Sibun
October 1984	Major John Stirk
March 1987	Major Andy Simkins
April 1989	Major David Joyce
May 1991	Major Gary Coward
June 1993	Major Garry Key
December 1995	Major Steven Marshall
November 1997	Major Tim Sharp
October 1999	Major Alex Tucker
October 2001	Major Neil Dalton
September 2003	Major Andy Cash
October 2006	Major David Amlôt
May 2009	Major Mike Neville
October 2011	Major Piers Lewis

From left, two Squadron OCs, Major Denis Coyle MBE, DFC, and Major ‘Warby’ Warburton MBE, DFC, with Major Claude Surgeon and Captain John Tippen, look over one of the training helicopters at the US Army Primary Helicopter School, Camp Wolters, Texas, in December 1957.