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Awarded<\/strong>: July 1944 (BR169)<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Gannet volant proper in front of a Tower Gules<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The unit had an anti-submarine role and the gannet symbolises this as it dives onto its submerged prey. The castle is from the Arms of Barnstaple where the unit was on formation.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Latin: Insidiantibus insidiamur<\/em> – We ambush the ambusher.<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Formed Chivenor 4 April 1942 disbanded Limavady 4 June 1945.<\/p>\n In Memory of the gallant crews of the 36 Leigh Light Wellingtons lost during the Bay of Biscay night operations offensive 1942-43 accounting for 20 U-Boats sunk or severely damaged. Sponsored by Air Cdre J H Greswell CB, CBE, DSO, DFC.<\/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: July 1944 (BR169) Blazon: A Gannet volant proper in front of a Tower Gules Link: The unit had an anti-submarine role and the gannet symbolises this as it dives onto its submerged prey. The castle is from the Arms of Barnstaple where the unit was on formation. Motto: Latin: Insidiantibus insidiamur – We ambush […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":571,"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\/2859"}],"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=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}