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Awarded:<\/strong> July 1952<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Portcullis Or a representation of St Leonard\u2019s tower West Malling proper.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The tower represents the defence given to the area by the station whilst the portcullis, from the badge of Fighter Command, indicates that the aircraft from West Malling form part of a defensive barrier.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Portam Custodimus<\/em> – We guard the gate.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Opened June 1940 Closed August 1964<\/p>\n Commissioned by Suzanne Walker-Brearley in Memory of all who served at RAF West Malling and in remembrance of two of my war years stationed there whilst serving with the WAAF<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: July 1952 Blazon: In front of a Portcullis Or a representation of St Leonard\u2019s tower West Malling proper. Link: The tower represents the defence given to the area by the station whilst the portcullis, from the badge of Fighter Command, indicates that the aircraft from West Malling form part of a defensive barrier. Motto: […]<\/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\/6399"}],"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=6399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6401,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions\/6401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}