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Awarded<\/strong>: September 1945 (BR360)<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A demi- Dragon rampant Gules gorged with a Chaplet of Maple Leaves Or holding a Rocket Or<\/p>\n Link<\/strong>: A dragon is included in the badge of RAF Colerne from where this unit carried out its first operational sortie, therefore by adopting a demi-dragon the unit perpetuates its association with this station. The collar of maple leaves has reference to the Canadian Army in Europe with whom it worked whilst the rocket refers to the weapons with which it was equipped.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Versatility<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed at Church Fenton on 1 November 1942 Was renumbered No 54 Squadron at Fairwood Common on 15 November 1945<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served with No 183 (Gold Coast) 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: September 1945 (BR360) Blazon: A demi- Dragon rampant Gules gorged with a Chaplet of Maple Leaves Or holding a Rocket Or Link: A dragon is included in the badge of RAF Colerne from where this unit carried out its first operational sortie, therefore by adopting a demi-dragon the unit perpetuates its association with this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":593,"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\/2907"}],"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=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2909,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions\/2909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}