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Awarded:<\/strong> November 1937<\/p>\n Blazon<\/strong>: On two Krises in saltire Argent a Chines Junk in full sail proper<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The Chinese junk is symbolic of the location and is based on a model in the Raffles Museum, Singapore. The krises are introduced as being the traditional weapon of the Malay races.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Eastward<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Far East Command formed on 1 January 1930 at Singapore and was renamed HQ Far East Command on 1 December 1933. This was re-designated AHQ Far East on 10 January 1941 and from there its fate is unknown but presumed to have been terminated when the Japanese invaded Singapore in February 1942 and all its personnel were taken as Prisoners of War. A new South East Asia Air Command was created in November 1943, which eventually became the Far East Air Force in June 1949 which was authorised to use the badge until it disbanded in 1971.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served with HQ Far East Command.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: November 1937 Blazon: On two Krises in saltire Argent a Chines Junk in full sail proper Link: The Chinese junk is symbolic of the location and is based on a model in the Raffles Museum, Singapore. The krises are introduced as being the traditional weapon of the Malay races. Motto: Eastward History: Far East […]<\/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":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589"}],"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=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6591,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions\/6591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}