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Awarded<\/strong>: June 1958<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Flash of Lightning in bend Gules surmounting a Sun in Splendour Or a pair of Callipers extended Azure.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The sun represents the climate of the Middle East, the callipers the engineering part of the unit whilst the flash, symbolising radio and radar equipment, covers the others.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Repair.<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Formed as Aircraft Depot, Middle East at Aboukir on 7 Oct \u201825, was re-designated No 103 MU on 12 November \u201839. Disbanded Akrotiri 31 January \u201875.<\/p>\n Commissioned by Sgt Richard (Dick) Harcourt and dedicated to Wg Cdr Ron Bowers and all \u2018Noddies\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: June 1958 Blazon: In front of a Flash of Lightning in bend Gules surmounting a Sun in Splendour Or a pair of Callipers extended Azure. Link: The sun represents the climate of the Middle East, the callipers the engineering part of the unit whilst the flash, symbolising radio and radar equipment, covers the others. […]<\/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":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843"}],"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=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6845,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions\/6845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}