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Awarded:<\/strong> July 1945<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> On a Terrestrial Globe proper an Eagle’s Head erased facing to the sinister Or<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The badge is indicative of service over East and South African waters<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Swahili: Haya ingia napigane<\/em> \u2013 Get in and fight<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed at Felixstowe from Nos. 342, 343 & 344 Flights on 20 August 1918 disbanding on 13 September 1919. Re-formed at Kipevu, Kenya on 16 February 1943 finally disbanding at Dar-es-Salaam on 30 April 1945<\/p>\n Battle Honours:<\/strong> No Standard<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served on No 259 Squadron.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: July 1945 Blazon: On a Terrestrial Globe proper an Eagle’s Head erased facing to the sinister Or Link: The badge is indicative of service over East and South African waters Motto: Swahili: Haya ingia napigane \u2013 Get in and fight History: Formed at Felixstowe from Nos. 342, 343 & 344 Flights on 20 August […]<\/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\/3951"}],"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=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3953,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions\/3953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}