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Awarded:<\/strong> February 1950<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Portcullis Or a dark brown Bull\u2019s head caboshed.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The bull\u2019s head has had a long association as a symbol of the station whilst the portcullis indicates the role of the unit as a guardian of London and as a link with Fighter Command<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> First things first.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Opened 3 October 1915. Closed 1 July 1962<\/p>\n Commissioned by Colin F Musson and the Canadian Chapter of the Battle of Britain Society and dedicated to the Canadians who flew from Hornchurch during the Battle of Britain<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: February 1950 Blazon: In front of a Portcullis Or a dark brown Bull\u2019s head caboshed. Link: The bull\u2019s head has had a long association as a symbol of the station whilst the portcullis indicates the role of the unit as a guardian of London and as a link with Fighter Command Motto: First things […]<\/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\/6185"}],"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=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6187,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions\/6187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}