The 460 Squadron RAAF Website describes events at Binbrook following VJ day as follows:

“Most of you would be aware that following the end of hostilities in Europe, the Squadron moved on the East Kirkby for “Tiger Force” training. Perhaps what we did not know was that 12 Squadron moved to Binbrook in September 1945 (from RAF Station Wickenby),

The Editor of the Wickenby Register Newsletter had the following to say about the transfer:

Binbrook - 1945

After saying appropriate good-byes to Wickenby we flew in formation to Binbrook on a beautiful September day - a shakedown trip for the new No. 12 Squadron on its first post war peacetime stint, Nine Lancs, a new C/O. (Wing. Cdr. Stafford Pollein Coulson, DSO, DFC) and a new Flight Commander (Sqdn. Ldr. ‘Paddy’ Flynn).

The Station was deserted and empty except for an enormous amount of junk left behind by No. 460 Squadron - bikes by the dozen, old cars on every corner. Dustbins full of uniforms and silent radios on every shelf and window ledge. Needless to say, quite a lot of it was successfully salvaged. But there was something else.

Not exactly a ghostly feeling but certainly a noticeable tension, as if the operational tradition of the place, established with such valour and at such cost by the Australians, was tangibly at odds with we ‘invaders’.

In due course we explored this grand and lordly place. Behind the Mess (and built onto it with considerable skill) was the ‘Village Inn’. The interior of this ‘encroachment’, as the Clerk of Works called it, was beautifully done out in brickwork and old oak timbers with oak furniture to suit. It had a magnificent oak bar opposite which was a fireplace fit to grade any Tudor mansion. Poignant to recall now, in pride of place in the corner of the bar stood a splendid oak chair into the back of which was carved the name of Group Captain Hughie Edwards, V.C.

In the Control Tower the Aussies had left another legacy. The walls of the Flying Control room had been done out in a pale blue colour. The rear and side walls bore a frieze of roman lettering about eight inches high in gold - again expertly done.”