7 Squadron is based at RAF Odiham, home of the UK Chinook force. They are the last RFC unit to stand up before WWI. Aircraft flown by the Squadron include the Lancaster, Valiant and the Canberra and they fly the latest Chinook HC6 variant.
1914 Formed at Farnborough.
1941 The first RAF unit to operate four-engined bombers in WWII.
2000 Took part in operations in Sierra Leone.
1915 - 1918 Western Front
1915 Ypres
1916 Loos, Somme
1917 Ypres
1941 - 1944 Fortress Europe
1941 - 1944 Biscay Ports
1942 - 1945 Ruhr
1942 - 1945 German Ports
1943 - 1945 Berlin
1944 - 1945 France and Germany
1944 Normandy
1944 Rhine
1944 Kosovo
2000 Sierra Leone
2003 - 2011* Iraq
2001 - 2014 Afghanistan
*Honours marked with an asterisk, may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard
