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Awarded:<\/strong> August 1950<\/p>\n Blazon<\/strong>: In front of an Oak Tree eradicated fructed proper a Lion statant guardant Gules<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The badge is based on the Arms of Andover. The lion and oak tree are indicative of the strength and permanence of the station.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Vis ex armis consilioque orta<\/em> – Power derived from arms and knowledge.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Opened in 1916 as RFC station. Was transferred to Army control on 10 June 1977.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served at RAF Station Andover.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: August 1950 Blazon: In front of an Oak Tree eradicated fructed proper a Lion statant guardant Gules Link: The badge is based on the Arms of Andover. The lion and oak tree are indicative of the strength and permanence of the station. Motto: Latin: Vis ex armis consilioque orta – Power derived from arms […]<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969"}],"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=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5971,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions\/5971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}