Awarded: February 1937
Blazon: A Winged Seahorse proper.
Link: When stationed in the Persian Gulf the unit noticed many seahorses on the beach and adopted this design as a badge.
Motto: Latin: Occidens oriensque – West and East
History: Formed Eastchurch August 1914 as 3 Sqn RNAS. Renumbered 203 1 April 1918 Disbanded 31 December 1977.NB: Reformed after page was completed on 16 October as Reserve Sqn at St Mawgan
Battle Honours: 1. Western Front 1914-18. 2. Anzac. 3. Arras. 4. Somme 1918. 5. Mediterranean 1941-43. 6. Iraq 1941. 7. Sicily 1943. 8. Burma 1945. 9. Germany 1914-15. 10. Aegean 1915. 11. Helles. 12. Suvla. 13. Lys. 14. Hindenburg Line. 15. East Africa 1940-41. 16. Habbaniya. 17. Syria 1941. 18. Egypt & Libya 1941-42. 19. South Africa 1943. 20. Eastern Waters 1944-45
Sponsored by Racal Thorn Wells in Memory of Sqn Ld J C “Johnny” Johnstone.