Survey (or Survey – Army): Lieutenant-Colonel T.A. Vance (January 1941 – June 1942) Colonel L. Fitzgerald, OBE (June 1942 – January 1960) Colonel D. Macdonald, (January 1960 – March 1967) Colonel F.D. Buckland, OBE (March 1967 – August 1972) Colonel J.K. Nolan (August 1972 – June 1975) Colonel J.L. Stedman (July 1975 – February 1978) Colonel N.R.J. Hillier (March 1978 – July 1983) Colonel A.W. Laing (July 1983 – November 1988) Colonel D.G. Swiney, MBE (November 1988 – January 1991) Colonel S.W. Lemon (January 1991 – June 1996) The high reputation and esteem in which the Corps was held within the Australian Defence Force, the surveying and mapping profession and amongst Australia's military allies and friends was based on its achievements largely possible only by the quality of its people. This was greatly enhanced by the camaraderie and espirit-de-corps of the members of the Corps, knowing the high military value and high quality of the work that they produced. After World War II eight Corps officers were later appointed Surveyors-General or Directors of Survey/Mapping/Lands in the States or Commonwealth organisations. Many personnel went on to leadership positions in professional institutions. The first five members of the Institution of Surveyors, Australia, to be recognised for outstanding service to the profession and awarded a special medial, with a gold medal for exceptional service, had all been Second World War officers of the Survey Corps (Brigadier L Fitzgerald OBE, Lieutenant-Colonel JG Gillespie MBE (gold medal), Lieutenant-Colonel HA Johnson MBE, Captain SE Reilly MBE, Brigadier D Macdonald AM. From the 1960s, most Corps officers were tertiary educated with many at the post-graduate level in either mapping or computer disciplines and military command and staff training. This was the key to understanding the potential, application and implementation of emerging technologies and techniques across all aspects of Corps capability. Corps soldier training was both broad within a trade, across Corps trades and specific to specialised equipment with military training for various levels of leadership. Officers and soldiers posted outside Corps positions were highly regarded. Until the 1970s the Corps sponsored and trained soldiers in trades other than the mapping related trades essential to its operations. These included drivers, storemen and clerks. After some rationalisation the Corps retained career and training responsibility for all mapping related trades, and also photographers (non-public relations), illustrators and projectionists who were posted mainly to training institutions and headquarters. More than 6,300