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Awarded:<\/strong> June 1945<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A representation of Ra proper<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The god Ra was ‘Lord of the Air’ and ‘King of Two Horizons’ and as Heliopolis was the site of his sanctuary he was considered a suitable insignia for the unit.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> We travel the horizons<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed at Heliopolis from No 173 Sqn on 29 February 1944, but that unit’s fate is unknown. It reformed on 31 May 1945 and was re-designated Mediterranean and Middle East Communications Sqn on 1 November 1945 before becoming HQ Middle East Communications Sqn at Kabrit on 1 June 1949 where it finally disbanded on 30 November 1949<\/p>\n Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served with Middle East Communications Squadron<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: June 1945 Blazon: A representation of Ra proper Link: The god Ra was ‘Lord of the Air’ and ‘King of Two Horizons’ and as Heliopolis was the site of his sanctuary he was considered a suitable insignia for the unit. Motto: We travel the horizons History: Formed at Heliopolis from No 173 Sqn on […]<\/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\/6703"}],"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=6703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6705,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions\/6705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}