Army until it could be transferred to Defence Intelligence. This last component was achieved in 2000 when the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (now Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation) was formed. These changes meant that the majority of Survey Corps staff positions would be removed, and so in September 1995 the Chief of the General Staff (CGS) decided that the remaining combat support force and training force functions of the Corps would be once again integrated with the combat force and training force of the Royal Australian Engineers. At the integration parade of the two Corps on 1 July 1996, 81 years after the formation of the Australian Survey Corps, the CGS said that "Since 1915 the Survey Corps has not just been a major contributor to the tactical success of the Australian Army in two World Wars and other conflicts, it has played an outstanding role in the building of this nation – the Commonwealth of Australia – and the building of other nations such as Papua New Guinea". In 2014, the 1st Topographical Survey Squadron RAE came under the command of the 1st Intelligence Battalion. In 2018, the Army geospatial capability, less the field surveying capability, was transferred from RAE to the Australian Army Intelligence Corps. As a part of this process, the 1st Topographical Survey Squadron RAE was retitled 5 Company, 1st Intelligence Battalion while the Geomatic Engineering Wing was retitled the Geospatial Intelligence Wing and transferred from School of Military Engineering to Defence Force School of Intelligence. Corps Appointments and its people Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II approved the appointment, on 1 July 1988, of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales as Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Survey Corps. Colonels Commandant (honorary appointment), Royal Australian Survey Corps: Brigadier D. Macdonald (Retd), AM (August 1967 – January 1973) Brigadier F.D. Buckland (Retd), OBE (January 1973 – January 1976) Colonel J.L. Stedman (Retd) (September 1978 – February 1983) Lieutenant-Colonel T.C. Sargent (Retd) (February 1983 – February 1989) Colonel N.R.J. Hillier (Retd) (February 1989 – January 1993) Colonel D.G. Swiney (Retd), MBE (January 1993 – January 1996) Officers Commanding, Survey Section RAE: Lieutenant W.L. Whitham (July 1910 – September 1912) Captain C.V. Quinlan (March 1913 – June 1915) Officers Commanding, Australian Survey Corps: Captain C.V. Quinlan (July 1915 – January 1916) Captain J. Lynch (January 1916 – May 1934) Major T.A. Vance (March 1936 – December 1940) Directors of Military