I'm almost certain we had AQM's on 99 sqn Hastings in 1957.
Paddy Whelan was the AQM in my crew on 105 in Aden. I remember him going home to Cork on compassionate leave to visit his sick father. He was back at work two weeks later with a large bag of Irish onions and sporting a magnificent black eye. He collected his black eye in a fight with his father over a young Coleen and the onions were destined for the crew sandwiches!