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Awarded<\/strong>: July 1936<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A cubit Arm the hand grasping a Spear all Azure<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The squadron was known as \u201cThe Spearpoints\u201d after being part of a Q force from Suez to Constantinople in 1926.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Latin: Nil nos tremefacit – Nothing shakes us.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed Castle Bromwich 27 April 1916.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served with No 55 Squadron.<\/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. Ypres 1917. 3. Independent Force & Germany 1918. 4. Egypt & Libya 1940-43. 5. El Alamein.6. El Hamma. 7. Sicily 1943. 8. Gothic Line. 9. Arras. 10. North Africa 1943. 11. Salerno. 12. Italy 1943-45. 13. Gustav Line.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: July 1936 Blazon: A cubit Arm the hand grasping a Spear all Azure Link: The squadron was known as \u201cThe Spearpoints\u201d after being part of a Q force from Suez to Constantinople in 1926. Motto: Latin: Nil nos tremefacit – Nothing shakes us. History: Formed Castle Bromwich 27 April 1916. Sponsored by Ivon Nigel […]<\/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\/3243"}],"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=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5355,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions\/5355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}