{"id":6527,"date":"2016-06-19T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T19:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2016-06-19T19:23:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T19:23:13","slug":"no-23-service-flying-training-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/19\/no-23-service-flying-training-school\/","title":{"rendered":"No.23 Service Flying Training School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_image admin_label=&#8221;Image&#8221; src=&#8221;http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Service-Flying-Training-School-23.jpg&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;off&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; use_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; animation=&#8221;left&#8221; sticky=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; always_center_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awarded:<\/strong> October 1942<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blazon<\/strong>: A Lion rampant guardant Gules holding in the forepaws a Pickaxe Or<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong>: This school was located in Southern Rhodesia and the lion and pickaxe appear in the Armorial Bearings of that country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto:<\/strong> Latin: <em>Assidutate non desidia<\/em> \u2013 By diligence not by sloth<\/p>\n<p><strong>History:<\/strong> Formed up at Sealand, embarking from Liverpool on 2 June 1941 arriving at Heany near Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia on 8 July 1941. Closed 30 September 1945<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served with No 23 Service Flying Training School.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded: October 1942 Blazon: A Lion rampant guardant Gules holding in the forepaws a Pickaxe Or Link: This school was located in Southern Rhodesia and the lion and pickaxe appear in the Armorial Bearings of that country. Motto: Latin: Assidutate non desidia \u2013 By diligence not by sloth History: Formed up at Sealand, embarking from [&hellip;]<\/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":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527"}],"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=6527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6529,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions\/6529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}