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Awarded<\/strong>: February 1938 (BR104)<\/p>\n Blazon<\/strong>: Issuant from the Battlements of a Tower proper a demi-Lion rampant guardant Or.<\/p>\n Link<\/strong>: The tower is symbolic of the unit\u2019s claim to have been the first sqn equipped with a powered rotating gun turret whilst the lion is symbolic of the fighting spirit.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Mens agitat molem<\/em> – Mind over matter.<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Formed Farnborough 12 July 1917 remains current.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Mr D.G. Simmons in Memory of Flt Sgt W.J. Simmons.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Battle Honours: <\/strong><\/p>\n 1.Western Front 1917-18. 2. Ypres 1917. 3. Somme 1918. 4. Fortress Europe 1940-44. 5. Invasion Ports 1940.\u00a0Ruhr 1940-45. 7. Berlin 1941. 8.Normandy 1944. 9. Lys. 10. Hindenburg Line. 11. Channel & North Sea 1941-44. 12. Biscay Ports 1941-44. 13. German Ports 1941-44. 14.Baltic 1942-45. 15. Berlin 1943-44. 16.France & Germany 1944-45. 17 Walcheren<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: February 1938 (BR104) Blazon: Issuant from the Battlements of a Tower proper a demi-Lion rampant guardant Or. Link: The tower is symbolic of the unit\u2019s claim to have been the first sqn equipped with a powered rotating gun turret whilst the lion is symbolic of the fighting spirit. Motto: Latin: Mens agitat molem – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}