Colin Scragg

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Sir Colin Scragg (8 September 1908 – 5 April 1989) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. He started as a flight sergeant and was commissioned on 24 February 1938. In the Second World War he commanded No. 166 Squadron from December 1943, but was shot down over Germany in January 1944 and became a prisoner of war. After the war, he held several senior roles: deputy director of Operational Requirements in 1950, Director of Operational Requirements in November 1955, and Air Officer Commanding No. 23 Group in December 1958. His final post was Deputy Controller Aircraft at the Ministry of Aviation in 1960, and he retired in September 1964. Scragg was honored as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB), and with the Air Force Cross (AFC) and Bar.