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Awarded:<\/strong> October 1936 (BR17)<\/p>\n Blazon<\/strong>: A Gauntlet proper<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> This badge is an example of the adoption of a symbol to represent the aircraft (Gloster Gauntlet) the unit was flying at the time the badge was authorized.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> (Latin) Excellere contende<\/em> – Strive to excel.<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Formed Gosport 1 February 1915 and remains current.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Mr Paul Hambleton in Memory of his uncle Flt Sgt \u201cMo\u201d Whiting who served with the Squadron in Burma during 1945<\/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>: 1.Egypt 1915-16. 2. Palestine 1916. 3. Macedonia 1916-18. 4.France & Low Countries 1940. 5. Dunkirk. 6.Battle of Britain 1940. 7. Burma 1942. 8.Burma 1944-45. 9. Home Defence 1940 10. Arakan 1943. 11. Gulf 1991.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: October 1936 (BR17) Blazon: A Gauntlet proper Link: This badge is an example of the adoption of a symbol to represent the aircraft (Gloster Gauntlet) the unit was flying at the time the badge was authorized. Motto: (Latin) Excellere contende – Strive to excel. History: Formed Gosport 1 February 1915 and remains current. Sponsored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":263,"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\/3059"}],"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=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3061,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}