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Awarded:<\/strong> June 1948<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of an equilateral Triangle Gules voided Argent an Escallop inverted Or.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The equilateral triangle comes from the badge of 51 Motor Transport Co whose personnel became the station\u2019s MT Squadron on its disbandment. The escallop, being the badge of travellers, represent all those who pass through the station.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Strength through mobility<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Opened April 1947 Closed October 1955.<\/p>\n Commissioned by Roland J Dartnell in Memory of Cpl Charles Joseph Dartnell 1927-1989 RAFVR, El Hamra No 1 AIS Test Centre, 1948.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: June 1948 Blazon: In front of an equilateral Triangle Gules voided Argent an Escallop inverted Or. Link: The equilateral triangle comes from the badge of 51 Motor Transport Co whose personnel became the station\u2019s MT Squadron on its disbandment. The escallop, being the badge of travellers, represent all those who pass through the station. […]<\/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\/6113"}],"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=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6115,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions\/6115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}