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Awarded:<\/strong> October 1941<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Lion passant guardant Or charged on the shoulder with an eagle\u2019s Claw Sable and holding in the dexter forepaw an Elephant\u2019s Tusk proper.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The badge is based upon that of the British South Africa Co, which controlled Southern Rhodesia within whose AF the Sqn was once part. The eagle\u2019s claw alludes to it being part of the RAF<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin Primum agmen in caelo<\/em> – The vanguard in the sky.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed Cattewater August 1918. Renumbered No 93 Sqn at Lavariano, Italy 1 January 1946.<\/p>\n Battle Honours:<\/strong> None<\/p>\n Commissioned by the Hon Ian Douglas Smith GCLM, ID, MP; A\/Marshal Archie O G Wilson OBE, ICD, USDFC; Flt Lt R G S Simmonds; David M Barbour; Alan Burl; M A N Crocker; Gavin Smith & Leslie Hilditch; Sqn Ldr Ian Shand DSO, MBE, DFC, immortalizing the spirit of Rhodesian and other Commonwealth Airmen who answered<\/em> the call for King and Country in WWII, 1939-1945<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: October 1941 Blazon: A Lion passant guardant Or charged on the shoulder with an eagle\u2019s Claw Sable and holding in the dexter forepaw an Elephant\u2019s Tusk proper. Link: The badge is based upon that of the British South Africa Co, which controlled Southern Rhodesia within whose AF the Sqn was once part. The eagle\u2019s […]<\/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\/3865"}],"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=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}