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Awarded:<\/strong> October 1937<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Sphinx affrontee proper.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The Giza Sphinx signified the squadron’s motto, vigilant, as well as being representative of Egypt where the unit saw much service from 1920.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Vigilant<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed as No 8 Sqn RNAS 25 October 1916 at Teteghem and became a Reserve Sqn in April 1994.<\/p>\n Battle Honours:<\/strong> 1. Western Front 1916-18. 2.Arras. 3.Ypres 1917. 4. Somme 1918. 5.Egypt & Libya 1940-42. 6. Greece 1941. 7.El Alamein. 8. Italy 1944-45. 9. Lys. 10.Iraq 1941. 11. Syria 1941. 12. Gustav Line. 13 Gothic Line. 14. Gulf 1991.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Mrs Abigail Tainsh in Memory of W\/O John Buchan Tainsh (565208) born in Perth on 30 April 1914 and died in Broadstone on 22 June 1969, who served loyally from 13 January 1931 to 29 April 1969<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: October 1937 Blazon: A Sphinx affrontee proper. Link: The Giza Sphinx signified the squadron’s motto, vigilant, as well as being representative of Egypt where the unit saw much service from 1920. Motto: Vigilant History: Formed as No 8 Sqn RNAS 25 October 1916 at Teteghem and became a Reserve Sqn in April 1994. Battle […]<\/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\/3755"}],"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=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3757,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}