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Awarded:<\/strong> October 1944<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> On the Waves of the Sea an Ancient Ship sails furled Gules charged on the bow with an Eye<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The ship with its seven oars represents the crew of a Lancaster bomber. It is intended to be that of Ulysses and symbolises the aircraft which, like the ship, makes its journeys in spite of difficulties. The motto is taken from the last line of Lord Tennyson’s poem ‘Ulysses’<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: To strive and not to yield<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed at Wickenby on 7 November 1943 \u2013 Disbanded there 14 October 1945<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served with No. 626 Squadron<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: October 1944 Blazon: On the Waves of the Sea an Ancient Ship sails furled Gules charged on the bow with an Eye Link: The ship with its seven oars represents the crew of a Lancaster bomber. It is intended to be that of Ulysses and symbolises the aircraft which, like the ship, makes its […]<\/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\/4417"}],"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=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5675,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions\/5675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}