During the First World War, No. 46 Squadron claimed 184 air victories, creating  17 aces.

• Donald MacLaren DSO, MC*,DFC:
• Cecil (Chaps) Marchant MC;
• George Thomson, DSO, MC, DFC;
• Harry Robinson, MC, CdG;
• Clive Brewster-Joske, MC;
• Roy McConnell, DFC;
• Maurice D. G. Scott, MC;
• Maurice Freehill, DFC;
• Philip Tudhope, DFC.
• Paul Ward Spencer Bulman, CBE, MC, AFC** FRAeS

Please click to see details of all No. 46 Squadron’s First World War Aces

Other members of the Squadron during World War I included:

• Victor Yeates, the author of Winged Victory,  and;
• Arthur Gould Lee MC, who authored No Parachute and later achieved the rank of later Air Vice Marshal.^[11]