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Awarded:<\/strong> October 1936 (BR114)<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of two Swords in saltire Gules a Cross potent quadrate Or charged with three Seaxes fess wise in pale Sable.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The cross commemorates the unit\u2019s formation in Palestine, the seaxes come from the Arms of Essex where the unit was stationed in 1932 whilst the 2 swords indicate the unit\u2019s role at that time which was the defence of London.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Adstantes – Standing by them.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed Deir-el-Balah, Palestine 1 August 1917. Remains current.<\/p>\n Commissioned by Adrian Ferris and dedicated to the Memory of Flt LT Henry Michael Ferriss, DFC, Killed in Action, 16 August 1940.<\/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> 1. Palestine 1917-18. 2. Home Defence 1940-42. 3. Dunkirk. 4, Battle of Britain 1940. 5. Fortress Europe 1941-42.6.\u00a0North Africa 1942-43. 7. Italy 1943-45. 8. France & Germany 1944. 9. Megiddo. 10. France & Low Countries 1940. 11. Dieppe. 12.\u00a0Sicily 1943. 13. Salerno. 14 Anzio & Nettuno. 15. Gustav Line.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: October 1936 (BR114) Blazon: In front of two Swords in saltire Gules a Cross potent quadrate Or charged with three Seaxes fess wise in pale Sable. Link: The cross commemorates the unit\u2019s formation in Palestine, the seaxes come from the Arms of Essex where the unit was stationed in 1932 whilst the 2 swords […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":451,"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\/2539"}],"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=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}