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Awarded:<\/strong> November 1951<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Bezant charged with a Pale Azure surmounted by a Bee volant proper<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The bezant and blue pale indicate the unit\u2019s location in the desert by the Suez Canal and the bee suggests the hard work involved in facilitating transport across the desert.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Procure prepare provide<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed at El Firdan, Egypt on 15 January 1948 and disbanded on 1 October 1955<\/p>\n Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served with No 9 Mechanical transport Base Depot <\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: November 1951 Blazon: A Bezant charged with a Pale Azure surmounted by a Bee volant proper Link: The bezant and blue pale indicate the unit\u2019s location in the desert by the Suez Canal and the bee suggests the hard work involved in facilitating transport across the desert. Motto: Procure prepare provide History: Formed at […]<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053"}],"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=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7055,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions\/7055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}