No. 236 Squadron RAF
Active	August 1918 - 15 May 1919 31 October 1939 – 25 May 1945
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Air Force
Mottos	Latin:Speculate nuntiate (Latin:Having watched, bring word)[1][2]
Insignia
Squadron Badge heraldry	In front of a fountain, a mailed fist grasping a winged sword.[3]
Squadron Codes	FA (Oct 1939 - 1941) ND (1941 - Aug 1943) MB (Jul 1944 - May 1945)

No. 236 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force aircraft squadron, which served during the First World War in the anti-submarine role, and for most of Second World War employed on anti-shipping operations.

The squadron was formed on 20 August 1918 from No's 493, 515 & 516 Flights atMullion, in Cornwall. Equipped with DH6s, it carried out anti-submarine patrols along the coast until the end of the war, disbanding on 15 May 1919.

Reformed as a fighter squadron atRAF Stradishall on 31 October 1939, the squadron was equipped withBlenheims. It took them toBircham Newton in February 1940, where the unit was transferred toCoastal Command. In April it moved toSpeke, rejoiningFighter Command and the following month moved toRAF Filton to fly defensive patrols over theEnglish Channel; in July a move toThorney Island saw it back in Coastal Command, where it stayed for the rest of the war.

From August 1940 it operated from bases in the south-west ofEngland, carrying out anti-shipping patrols over the Channel, andIrish Sea, having re-equipped withBeaufighters in October 1941.

On 12 June, a Beaufighter flown by a volunteer crew of Flight Lieutenant A. K. Gatward and Sergeant G. Fern made a solo sortie to Paris intending to disrupt a noon parade of German troops down theChamps-Elysees. On arrival it was seen that there was no parade but dropped aFrenchtricolore over the empty avenue and shot up the secondary target of theGestapo headquarters in the Ministry of Marine on thePlace de la Concorde before returning.^[4]

It was transferred toRAF Wattisham in February 1942 and reduced to a cadre. It received new Beaufighters in March and resumed its previous duties, although these were now flown over theNorth Sea, with detachments in the south-west who undertook similar duties over theBay of Biscay. In September 1942 the squadron moved toNorth Coates and in April 1943 became a part of the strike wing formed there, operating as such until the end of the war. The squadron disbanded on 25 May 1945.^[5]

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