{"id":3925,"date":"2016-06-11T12:03:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T12:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2016-06-11T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T12:04:43","slug":"252-sqn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/11\/252-sqn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"253 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\/253.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> February 1942<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blazon:<\/strong> The back of a dexter Arm proper embowed fesswise in Mogul armour Or the hand holding an Indian Battle axe in bend Or.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link:<\/strong> The unit was supplied with aircraft by the Indian state of Hyderabad and His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad suggested this badge because of this connection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto:<\/strong> Come one, come all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>History:<\/strong> Formed Bembridge 7 June 1918 disbanded at Waterbeach 1 September 1957.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Battle Honours:<\/strong> No Standard.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by John W Fowles in Memory of Mervyn J Stallworthy, a one time \u2018oppo\u2019 in the CMF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded: February 1942 Blazon: The back of a dexter Arm proper embowed fesswise in Mogul armour Or the hand holding an Indian Battle axe in bend Or. Link: The unit was supplied with aircraft by the Indian state of Hyderabad and His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad suggested this badge because of this connection. [&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\/3925"}],"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=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3929,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}