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No. 16 Group<\/strong><\/p>\n Awarded: October 1951<\/p>\n Blazon: A Lion rampant Sable crowned with an Astral Crown Or holding in the forepaws a Trident of the second<\/p>\n Link: The badge indicates the duties of the Group’s units \u2013 often over the sea<\/p>\n Date of Issue: October 1951<\/p>\n Motto: We seek to strike<\/p>\n History: Formed at Fossgate, York, on 1 April 1918 and became No 16 (Training) Group on 8 August 1918 before disbanding on 7 February 1920. It re-formed on 1 December 1936 as No. 16 (Reconnaissance) Group at Lee-on-Solent, becoming No. 16 (General Reconnaissance) Group in 1943, disbanding by being re-designated No. 16 HQ (Unit) No. 16 Wing, Chatham.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Aviation History Research Centre (AHRC) and dedicated to all who served in No. 16 Group<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No. 16 Group Awarded: October 1951 Blazon: A Lion rampant Sable crowned with an Astral Crown Or holding in the forepaws a Trident of the second Link: The badge indicates the duties of the Group’s units \u2013 often over the sea Date of Issue: October 1951 Motto: We seek to strike History: Formed at Fossgate, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7857,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855\/revisions\/7857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}