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Awarded:<\/strong> December 1958<\/p>\n Blazon<\/strong>: A Hurt surmounted of an Arrow bend sinister-wise and a Long-bow pale-wise all Or.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The hurt symbolises the RAF with the other components forming a topographical representation of the station. The arrow is the lengthened runway, the bow-string the old course of Watling Street which passed the station and the bow the re-alignment of the road necessitated by the runway extension.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Latin: Armatus non lakeside<\/em> – An armed man is not attacked<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Opened Jan 1916. Current.<\/p>\n Sponsored by the Hon. Geoffrey J Beck Esq., Lord of Knowle, and dedicated to the bomber crews of RAF Scampton, who flew from this base throughout WW II. Many failed to return; they will never be forgotten.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: December 1958 Blazon: A Hurt surmounted of an Arrow bend sinister-wise and a Long-bow pale-wise all Or. Link: The hurt symbolises the RAF with the other components forming a topographical representation of the station. The arrow is the lengthened runway, the bow-string the old course of Watling Street which passed the station and the […]<\/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\/6327"}],"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=6327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6329,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327\/revisions\/6329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}