45 Squadron

Formed:	March 1916 at Gosport
Mobilized:	October 1916
Insignia:
Aces:	30
Victories:	258	Claimed
Victories:		Confirmed
Losses:		Killed in Action (KIA)
		Killed in Flying Accident (KIFA)
		Wounded in Action (WIA)
		Prisoners of War (POW)

45 Squadron was formed at Gosport in March 1916 and was posted to France in October 1916. The unit was reassigned to Italy in November 1917 before returning to France in 1918.

Aces

Aircraft

COs

Aerodromes

1	Matthew Frew	23
2	Cedric Howell	19
3	Geoffrey Cock	13
4	Jack Cottle	13
5	Raymond Brownell	12
6	John Firth	11
7	Kenneth Montgomery	11
8	Mansell James	10
9	Norman Macmillan	9
10	Peter Carpenter	8
11	Richard Dawes	8
12	Norman Jones	8
13	Ernest Masters	8
14	Henry Moody	8
15	Thomas Williams	8
16	William Wright	7
17	James Dewhirst	7
18	Emerson Smith	6
19	James Belgrave	6
20	Charles Catto	6
21	Edward Clarke	6
22	Alfred Haines	6
23	Thomas Harries	6
24	Oscar McMaking	6
25	Alan Rice-Oxley	6
26	Francis Bowles	5
27	James Child	5
28	Earl Hand	5
29	Arthur Harris	5
30	John Pinder	5

1	Sopwith 1½ Strutter
2	Nieuport two-seater
3	Sopwith Camel