Commanding Officers
- World War I
- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Rankine;
- Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson.
- World War II
- Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Marcell Conran;
- Lieutenant Colonel William Taylor Owen;
- Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Hyacinth Honner.
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