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Awarded:<\/strong> February 1937 (BR41)<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A double armed Cross Gules<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The badge is adopted from the Arms of St Omer which was the location of the Sqn\u2019s first active service HQ in 1914-18<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Seek and destroy.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed Gosport 14 July 1916<\/p>\n Commissioned by Mr Grant Cornwell and dedicated by Mr GH Bennions DFC to the air- and ground crew of 41 (F) Squadron with \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 whom he was privileged to serve from 1936-41.<\/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. Western front 1916-18. 2. Somme 1916. 3. Cambrai 1917. 4. Amiens. 5. Battle of Britain 1940. 6.Fortress Europe 1940-44. 7. Dieppe. 8. France & Germany 1944-45. 9. Arras. 10. Somme 1918. 11. Lys. 12 Home Defence 1940-44. 13. Arnhem. 14. Walcheren. 15.Gulf 1991<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: February 1937 (BR41) Blazon: A double armed Cross Gules Link: The badge is adopted from the Arms of St Omer which was the location of the Sqn\u2019s first active service HQ in 1914-18 Motto: Seek and destroy. History: Formed Gosport 14 July 1916 Commissioned by Mr Grant Cornwell and dedicated by Mr GH Bennions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":311,"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\/3175"}],"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=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}