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Awarded:<\/strong> June 1945<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of Wings elevated and conjoined in base Or a Panther’s face Sable<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> This squadron carried out most of its operations over Sumatra, Java, Ceylon and Bengal and considers the head of the black Panther, which is indigenous to those countries, in front of wings to be symbolic of its functions.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: In medias res<\/em> \u2013 Into the middle of things<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed on 25 July 1918 from Nos. 523, 524 & 529 Flights at Luce Bay, disbanding on 5 March 1919. Re-formed at Leconfield on 20 November 1940, was deployed to the Far East theatre of war but following Japanese landings at Sumatra, was evacuated on 23 February 1942. On 1 March 1942, G Squadron at Ratmalana and Colombo Racecourse was re-numbered 258 Squadron and finally \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 disbanded at Kuala Lumpur on 31 December 1945<\/p>\n Battle Honours:<\/strong> No Standard<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served on No 258 Squadron.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: June 1945 Blazon: In front of Wings elevated and conjoined in base Or a Panther’s face Sable Link: This squadron carried out most of its operations over Sumatra, Java, Ceylon and Bengal and considers the head of the black Panther, which is indigenous to those countries, in front of wings to be symbolic of […]<\/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\/3947"}],"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=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3949,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/3949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}