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Awarded:<\/strong> June 1954<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Sword erect Argent pomelled and hilted Or enfiled by a Circlet of Chain Or<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The sword symbolises the front line fighter station role in 1939-45 whilst the chain remembers that the station was one of many forming around London at that time.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> The strongest Link.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed 2 February 1917 as a Radio and later Home Defence Fighter Station becoming an RAF station on 1 October 1932. Closed 4 October 1992.<\/p>\n Commissioned by Mark Rees and dedicated to all those who gave their lives both in war and peace whilst operating from Biggin Hill<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: June 1954 Blazon: A Sword erect Argent pomelled and hilted Or enfiled by a Circlet of Chain Or Link: The sword symbolises the front line fighter station role in 1939-45 whilst the chain remembers that the station was one of many forming around London at that time. Motto: The strongest Link. History: Formed 2 […]<\/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\/6001"}],"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=6001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8855,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions\/8855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}