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Awarded:<\/strong> January 1943<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Seahorse Gules crined and finned Or holding a Sword erect Argent<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The supporters of the Armorial Bearings of Newcastle-upon-Tyne are seahorses and by adopting one of these creatures holding a sword erect, this squadron commemorates its operational role and the fact it was based near that city.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Swift in pursuit.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed at Cherbourg from Nos 414 & 415 Flights RNAS in August 1918. Disbanded at Camden, New South Wales, Australia on 15 April 1946<\/p>\n Battle Honours:<\/strong> No Standard<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served with No 243 Squadron<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: January 1943 Blazon: A Seahorse Gules crined and finned Or holding a Sword erect Argent Link: The supporters of the Armorial Bearings of Newcastle-upon-Tyne are seahorses and by adopting one of these creatures holding a sword erect, this squadron commemorates its operational role and the fact it was based near that city. Motto: Swift […]<\/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\/3889"}],"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=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}