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Awarded:<\/strong> August 1964<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Mitre Or detailed Gules a pair of Wings conjoined in base Azure over all a Sword erect point downwards Argent hilted and pomelled Or<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The mitre is included in the badge because the Greek word \u2018Episkopos\u2019 means \u2018a Bishop\u2019. The wings conjoined in base are included to emphasise the fact that the station is an RAF one, the sword being added to show that its functions also include support for the Army.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> United we endeavour<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Opened in October 1955 and closed (?transferred to Army control) on 20 June 1969<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who have served at RAF Station Episkopi<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: August 1964 Blazon: In front of a Mitre Or detailed Gules a pair of Wings conjoined in base Azure over all a Sword erect point downwards Argent hilted and pomelled Or Link: The mitre is included in the badge because the Greek word \u2018Episkopos\u2019 means \u2018a Bishop\u2019. The wings conjoined in base are included […]<\/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\/6117"}],"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=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6119,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}