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Awarded:<\/strong> January 1943<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Maltese Cross Sable a Roundel chequy Argent\/Gules thereon a demi-Knight in Armour affrontee holding a spear all proper<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The station at Malta adopted the badge to commemorate associations with the island and are symbolic of the work being done by the present day \u2018knights\u2019 who defend the island against all comers<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Equites nostril arma sumunt<\/em> \u2013 Our Knights take up arms<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Opened 30 October 1940 Closed 15 February 1968<\/p>\n We remember the sacrifice and constant endeavour in the defence of the fortress island of Malta G.C. in the face of adversity, of the men and women of the RAF 1939-1945. Commissioned by Adam Collins, grandson of the Adjutant at RAF Ta Kali, Sid Collins, during the siege of Malta.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: January 1943 Blazon: In front of a Maltese Cross Sable a Roundel chequy Argent\/Gules thereon a demi-Knight in Armour affrontee holding a spear all proper Link: The station at Malta adopted the badge to commemorate associations with the island and are symbolic of the work being done by the present day \u2018knights\u2019 who defend […]<\/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\/6351"}],"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=6351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6353,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions\/6353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}