Commanders
The following officers have had command of 2 Squadron:
- 13 May 1912 Major C J Burke
- 10 November 1914 Major G W P Dawes
- 8 March 1915 Major T I Webb-Bowen
- 2 June 1915 Major J H W Becke
- 3 November 1915 Major C F de S.Murphy
- 9 April 1916 Major R A Cooper
- 16 August 1917 Major W R Snow
- 28 August 1918 Major P G Ross-Hume
- 12 November 1919 Squadron Leader B F More
- 18 June 1920 Squadron Leader F W Stent
- 16 August 1920 Squadron Leader A J Butler MC
- 15 May 1922 Squadron Leader L F Forbes
- 2 March 1925 Squadron Leader R E Saul
- 9 January 1927 Squadron Leader W Sowrey DFC MC
- 1 April 1928 Squadron Leader H M Probyn
- 29 September 1930 Squadron Leader S E Toomer DFC MC
- 12 January 1933 Squadron Leader P F Fullard DSO MC AFC
- 1 December 1933 Squadron Leader J H Green
- 20 July 1935 Squadron Leader N L Despoer
- 21 April 1938 Squadron Leader W A Opie
- 29 April 1939 Squadron Leader A J W Geddes (Wing Commander from 1 March 1940)
- 24 December 1941 Wing Commander P J A Riddell
- 8 February 1943 Wing Commander P W Stansfeld
- 29 June 1943 Squadron Leader B O C Egan-Wyer
- 25 August 1943 Squadron Leader M J Gray DFC
- 7 September 1944 Squadron Leader C A Maitland DFC
- 25 March 1945 Squadron Leader R J F Mitchell DFC
- 24 April 1946 Squadron Leader D W Barlow DFC
- 15 December 1946 Squadron Leader G Collinson
- 28 October 1948 Squadron Leader W A Newenham DFC
- 6 February 1950 Squadron Leader L H Bartlett DSO
- 1 November 1950 Squadron Leader R M Pugh AFC
- 29 May 1953 Squadron Leader R H G Weighill DFC
- 31 August 1955 Flight Lieutenant M C Newman
- 15 November 1955 Squadron Leader R S Mortley AFC
- 12 May 1958 Squadron Leader C A Wade
- 16 September 1960 Squadron Leader C S MacDonald
- 15 February 1962 Squadron Leader D L F Thornton
- 13 December 1964 Squadron Leader N J R Walpole
- 16 June 1967 Squadron Leader T Barrett
- 11 November 1969 Squadron Leader R J M David
- 7 December 1971 Wing Commander B A Stead
- 2 December 1972 Wing Commander D H Warren
- 8 May 1975 Wing Commander D C Ferguson
- 1 April 1976 Wing Commander R A F Wilson
- 6 January 1978 Wing Commander R Fowler AFC
- 4 May 1980 Wing Commander T G Thorn AFC
- 18 January 1983 Wing Commander F J Hoare AFC
- 31 May 1985 Wing Commander G E Stirrup
- 13 March 1987 Wing Commander P O Sturley
- 1 January 1989 Wing Commander A Threadgould
- 1 July 1991 Wing Commander B C Holding
- 21 July 1993 Wing Commander R J Hounslow
- 6 December 1993 Wing Commander C M Nickols
- 26 April 1996 Wing Commander R F Garwood DFC
- 27 November 1998 Wing Commander Steve J Hillier DFC
- 15 September 2000 Wing Commander R M Poole
- 2 May 2003 Wing Commander S Cockram
- 25 September 2005 Wing Commander A Hine
- 19 May 2008 Wing Commander J Turner DFC
- January 2011 Wing Commander N A Tucker-Lowe
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