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Awarded:<\/strong> March 1940<\/p>\n Blazon<\/strong>: A Sword in bend Argent hilted Or severing a Mantle Gules doubled Argent.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The Arms of Dover include a reference to St Martin who divided his cloak or mantle with a beggar. The mantle is also symbolic of the protection given by RAF units.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: From Defence to attack.<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Formed Dover 15 May 1916\u00a0 Disbanded Waddington 31 March 1984.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Bert Aggas in Memory of Flt Lt Paul M P Crampton DFC DFM<\/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. Home Defence 1916-18. 2. Channel & North Sea 1939-43. 3. German Ports 1940-45. 4. Ruhr 1940-45. 5. Berlin 1940-44. 6. Fortress Europe 1940-44. 7. Normandy 1944. 8. France & Germany 1944-45. 9. Norway 1940. 10. Baltic 1940-43. 11. France & Low Countries 1940. 12. Biscay Ports 1940-44. 13 Invasion Ports 1940. 14. Walcheren. 15. Rhine<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: March 1940 Blazon: A Sword in bend Argent hilted Or severing a Mantle Gules doubled Argent. Link: The Arms of Dover include a reference to St Martin who divided his cloak or mantle with a beggar. The mantle is also symbolic of the protection given by RAF units. Motto: From Defence to attack. History: […]<\/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\/3217"}],"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=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5345,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions\/5345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}