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Topcliffe<\/strong><\/p>\n Blazon: In front of a York Rose a Bugle Horn proper<\/p>\n Link: This unit adopted as its badge the Wakeman\u2019s Horn of Ripon, which has been used from an early date to give the alarm at the approach of danger. The York Rose has been introduced to indicate the location of the Station in Yorkshire<\/p>\n Date of Issue: February 1951<\/p>\n Motto: Latin: Qui operit canlum <\/em>\u2013 Who covereth the Heaven<\/p>\n History: Opened July 40 as satellite to Dishforth. Became base Station 1\/3\/43. Stn HQ Close 1972 transferred to Army. re-opened as Alanbrooke barracks 1974. Airfield still live as satellite station to Linton-on-Ouse.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Bernard Thompson, Flt Lt (ret\u2019d). His first posting and the last serving RAF Officer on the Unit together with Sqn Ldr \u2018Mac\u2019 McClughen<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Topcliffe Blazon: In front of a York Rose a Bugle Horn proper Link: This unit adopted as its badge the Wakeman\u2019s Horn of Ripon, which has been used from an early date to give the alarm at the approach of danger. The York Rose has been introduced to indicate the location of the Station in […]<\/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\/8327"}],"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=8327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8329,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327\/revisions\/8329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}