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Awarded:<\/strong> August 1943 (BR161)<\/p>\n Blazon<\/strong>: In front of a Rising Sun Or a Lion passant guardant Gules<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The unit was subscribed for by the British community in the Argentine. The gift is commemorated by a lion – symbolic of the British – and reference to the sun which appears on the ensign of the Argentine Republic.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Spanish: Firmes volamos<\/em> – Firmly we fly<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Formed as a nucleus on 1 June 1918 but disbanded on 4 July 1918. Re-formed on 6 April 1942 at Peterhead and was re-numbered No 63 Squadron at Middle Wallop on 31 August 1946<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served with No 164 (Argentine-British) Squadron<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][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: August 1943 (BR161) Blazon: In front of a Rising Sun Or a Lion passant guardant Gules Link: The unit was subscribed for by the British community in the Argentine. The gift is commemorated by a lion – symbolic of the British – and reference to the sun which appears on the ensign of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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\/2819"}],"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=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}