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Awarded:<\/strong> March 1946<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Fountain an Orange tree fructed and eradicated proper.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The Orange tree is a national symbol of the Netherlands whilst the fountain alludes to operations over the sea<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Latin: Animo libero dirigimur<\/em> – We are guided by the mind of liberty.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed Pembroke Dock 1 June 1940 with Royal Netherlands Naval Air Service seaplanes and crews evacuated from the Netherlands upon the German Invasion. Control of the Sqn transferred back to the Royal Netherlands Navy on 2 August 1945<\/p>\n Battle Honours:<\/strong> No Standard.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Mary Denton-Boomsma in Memory of my father Evert Willem Boomsma whose courageous escape from Holland on 6 May 1941 led indirectly to the formation of the RAF Heraldry Trust and this project.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: March 1946 Blazon: In front of a Fountain an Orange tree fructed and eradicated proper. Link: The Orange tree is a national symbol of the Netherlands whilst the fountain alludes to operations over the sea Motto: Latin: Animo libero dirigimur – We are guided by the mind of liberty. History: Formed Pembroke Dock 1 […]<\/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\/4089"}],"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=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}