No. 48 Squadron RAF

Besides Park, they included: Fred Holliday, John Letts, Brian Edmund Baker, Harold Anthony Oaks, Leonard A. PayneRobert Dodds, John Theobald Milne, Charles Napier, Frank Ransley, Alan Wilkinson, Thomas Percy Middleton, William Price, future Air Marshal Charles Steele, Norman Craig Millman, Thomas G. Rae, Owen Scholte, Harold Johnstone Pratt, Hugh Leslie Owen, Roger Hay, Norman Roberts,[citation needed] Joseph Michael John Moore,[3] Arthur Noss[4] and Maurice Benjamin.

[5] The squadron reformed on 25 November 1935 at RAF Bicester, and became a General Reconnaissance unit operating Avro Anson aircraft.

[6] With the outbreak of war in 1939 the squadron was engaged in coastal patrols along the south coast of England.

The squadron remained a transport unit for the remainder of its existence, flying the Hastings until it was replaced with the turboprop Lockheed C-130 Hercules in 1968.

[7] The squadron returned to the UK on 1 September 1971, continuing to operate the Hercules until disbandment at RAF Lyneham on 7 January 1976.

In the First World War, airmen would often stick bottle labels to their aircraft and so the Bass red triangle - the first registered UK trademark - was incorporated as the main part of the badge with the head of a petrel – a small seabird.

First World War era Bristol Fighter of the Shuttleworth Collection
Avro Anson used by 48 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command
Photo taken by a 48 Squadron Lockheed Hudson , showing U-617, on fire and lying on her side beached near the Moroccan coast, after attacks by aircraft from RAF Gibraltar, 12 Sept 1943.
Handley Page Hastings C.1 TG516 in 1971, after three years in storage, still wearing RAF Far East titles and 48 Squadron's red triangle symbol.