{"id":3903,"date":"2016-06-11T10:04:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T10:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2016-06-11T10:04:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T10:04:33","slug":"248-sqn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/11\/248-sqn\/","title":{"rendered":"248 Sqn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_image admin_label=&#8221;Image&#8221; src=&#8221;http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/248.jpg&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;off&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; use_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; animation=&#8221;left&#8221; sticky=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; always_center_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awarded:<\/strong> August 1940<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blazon:<\/strong> A demi- Sword in bend Argent hilted Sable partly withdrawn from the Scabbard Gules\/Or<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link:<\/strong> The partly drawn sword indicates a willingness to fight. The emblems of the Dominions (Maple Leaf, Wattle, Protea Flower and Fern Leaf) on the scabbard show that personnel were mainly drawn from these lands<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto:<\/strong> French: <em>Il faut en finir<\/em> &#8211; We must see it through.<\/p>\n<p><strong>History:<\/strong> Formed August 1918 at Hornsea Mere. Renumbered No 36 Sqn Thorney Island 30 September 1946<\/p>\n<p>Battle Hons: No Standard.<\/p>\n<p><em>Commissioned by Stuart and Carol Yates in Memory of our father, 631756 Sergeant Gordon Yates &#8211; one of \u2018The Few\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded: August 1940 Blazon: A demi- Sword in bend Argent hilted Sable partly withdrawn from the Scabbard Gules\/Or Link: The partly drawn sword indicates a willingness to fight. The emblems of the Dominions (Maple Leaf, Wattle, Protea Flower and Fern Leaf) on the scabbard show that personnel were mainly drawn from these lands Motto: French: [&hellip;]<\/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\/3903"}],"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=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3905,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions\/3905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}