Colin Scragg
{{Short description|Royal Air Force Air-Vice Marshal (1908–1989)}}
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Air Vice Marshal Sir Colin Scragg, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KBE|CB|AFC1}} (8 September 1908 – 5 April 1989) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.
RAF career
Scragg was commissioned from the rank of flight sergeant on 24 February 1938.{{London Gazette|issue=34490|page=1511|date=8 March 1938}} He served in the Second World War as officer commanding, No. 166 Squadron from December 1943 before being shot down over Germany and becoming a prisoner of war in January 1944.{{cite web|url=http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Graham_HR.htm|title=Air Vice Marshal C. Scragg|publisher=Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation|accessdate=28 June 2020}}
After the war he became deputy director of Operational Requirements in 1950, Director of Operational Requirements in November 1955 and Air Officer Commanding, No. 23 Group in December 1958.{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Royal%20Air%20Force%20Senior%20Appointments.pdf|title=Senior RAF appointments|accessdate=28 June 2020}} His last appointment was as Deputy Controller Aircraft at the Ministry of Aviation in 1960 before retiring in September 1964.
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Category:Royal Air Force air marshals
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire