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Awarded:<\/strong> October 1942<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Panther\u2019s face proper.<\/p>\n Link<\/strong>: Known for its speed and power to kill at night, the panther was chosen to represent the unit\u2019s night fighter role.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Latin: Ad auroram<\/em> – To the break of dawn.<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Formed at Pembroke 25 July 1918 finally disbanded at Gianaclis, Egypt on 30 April 1946.<\/p>\n Battle Honours:<\/strong> No Standard.<\/p>\n Commissioned by Shaun Stewart LLB in Memory of his father, Gp. Capt. Charles L.W. Stewart CBE DSO AFC, who commanded the squadron in 1944 and dedicated to all who served with No 255 Squadron.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: October 1942 Blazon: A Panther\u2019s face proper. Link: Known for its speed and power to kill at night, the panther was chosen to represent the unit\u2019s night fighter role. Motto: Latin: Ad auroram – To the break of dawn. History: Formed at Pembroke 25 July 1918 finally disbanded at Gianaclis, Egypt on 30 April […]<\/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\/3935"}],"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=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3937,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions\/3937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}