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Awarded:<\/strong> February 1937<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Winged Seahorse proper.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> When stationed in the Persian Gulf the unit noticed many seahorses on the beach and adopted this design as a badge.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Occidens oriensque<\/em> – West and East<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed Eastchurch August 1914 as 3 Sqn RNAS. Renumbered 203 1 April 1918 Disbanded 31 December 1977.NB: Reformed after page was completed on 16 October as Reserve Sqn at St Mawgan<\/p>\n Battle Honours:<\/strong> 1. Western Front 1914-18. 2. Anzac. 3. Arras. 4. Somme 1918. 5. Mediterranean 1941-43. 6. Iraq 1941. 7. Sicily 1943. 8. Burma 1945. 9. Germany 1914-15. 10. Aegean 1915. 11. Helles. 12. Suvla. 13. Lys. 14. Hindenburg Line. 15. East Africa 1940-41. 16. Habbaniya. 17. Syria 1941. 18. Egypt & Libya 1941-42. 19. South Africa 1943. 20. Eastern Waters 1944-45<\/p>\n Sponsored by Racal Thorn Wells in Memory of Sqn Ld J C \u201cJohnny\u201d Johnstone.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: February 1937 Blazon: A Winged Seahorse proper. Link: When stationed in the Persian Gulf the unit noticed many seahorses on the beach and adopted this design as a badge. Motto: Latin: Occidens oriensque – West and East History: Formed Eastchurch August 1914 as 3 Sqn RNAS. Renumbered 203 1 April 1918 Disbanded 31 December […]<\/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\/3735"}],"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=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3737,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions\/3737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}