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Awarded:<\/strong> April 1956<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> Issuant from Water barry wavy in base proper a Key wards upwards and to the dexter Or<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The key and fountain representing water suggest the unit\u2019s function of guarding the gateway to the Mediterranean. The key is also symbolic of the unit\u2019s location as it is part of the Arms of Gibraltar. DoI: April 1956 to North Front. Although the station name changed to \u2018Gibraltar\u2019 in 1967, there is no official record of it having been granted a Close Copy of the badge although its use has been accepted.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Guard the gateway<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Opened originally as an emergency airfield for the RNAS in September 1939 and became RAF Station North Front in 1942. It subsequently changed its name to \u2018Gibraltar\u2019 in January 1967and remains current<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served at RAF Station Gibraltar<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: April 1956 Blazon: Issuant from Water barry wavy in base proper a Key wards upwards and to the dexter Or Link: The key and fountain representing water suggest the unit\u2019s function of guarding the gateway to the Mediterranean. The key is also symbolic of the unit\u2019s location as it is part of the 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\/6291"}],"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=6291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6293,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291\/revisions\/6293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}