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Awarded:<\/strong> November 1939 (BR116)<\/p>\n Blazon<\/strong>: In front of a Cross potent between four like Crosses Gules 2 Swords in saltire points uppermost proper pommelled and hilted Or.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The cross marking comes from the Arms of Jerusalem but are red instead of yellow to link them with the cross of St George.\u00a0The swords are introduced to represent the units role of defending the Holy Land.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Latin: Velox et vindex<\/em> – Swift to vengeance.<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Formed Ismalia 1 August 1917. Disbanded Mepal 10 July 1963.<\/p>\n Commissioned by George \u2018Taff\u2019 Checketts, 113 Sqn Western Desert 1941 and dedicated to all those who maintained the Blenheim\u2019s airworthiness, thus ensuring the safe return of us, the aircrew.<\/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>: No Standard.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: November 1939 (BR116) Blazon: In front of a Cross potent between four like Crosses Gules 2 Swords in saltire points uppermost proper pommelled and hilted Or. Link: The cross marking comes from the Arms of Jerusalem but are red instead of yellow to link them with the cross of St George.\u00a0The swords are introduced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":455,"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\/2549"}],"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=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}