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Awarded:<\/strong> May 1952<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of two Gun Barrels in saltire Or a Lion rampant Gules charged with the Cross of St. Andrew Argent.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The gun barrels refer to the unit’s Air Observation Post Sqn role whilst the lion and cross represent its association with Scotland.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Speculatum ascendimus<\/em> – We ascend to observe.<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Formed as Canadian manned AOP unit on 5 March 1945, disbanding on 30 March 1946, reforming as an RAuxAF unit at Scone on 1 May 1949 finally disbanding there on 10 March 1957.<\/p>\n Battle Honours<\/strong>: No Standard.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Bruce Blance and dedicated to all Air Observation Post aircrews and ground crews.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: May 1952 Blazon: In front of two Gun Barrels in saltire Or a Lion rampant Gules charged with the Cross of St. Andrew Argent. Link: The gun barrels refer to the unit’s Air Observation Post Sqn role whilst the lion and cross represent its association with Scotland. Motto: Latin: Speculatum ascendimus – We ascend […]<\/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\/4487"}],"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=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}