{"id":9213,"date":"2018-04-11T19:29:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T19:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=9213"},"modified":"2018-04-11T19:29:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T19:29:39","slug":"raf-middleton-st-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/04\/11\/raf-middleton-st-george\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF Middleton St George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_image admin_label=&#8221;Image&#8221; src=&#8221;http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RAF-Middleton-St-George.jpg&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;off&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; use_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; animation=&#8221;left&#8221; sticky=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; always_center_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Middleton-St-George<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blazon<\/strong>: A Canada Goose displayed proper holding the Blade of an Ancient Sword pommel and hilt to the sinister Argent<\/p>\n<p>Link: A Canada Goose commemorates the fact that Middleton-St-George \u2013 known locally as Goosepool \u2013 served as a Royal Canadian Air Force base during the 1939-45 War. An ancient sword is introduced in reference to the name of the station as being a weapon of St George and symbolic of the defence of the area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of Issue:<\/strong> October 1958<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto:<\/strong> Shield and deter<\/p>\n<p><strong>History:<\/strong> Opened 15 January 1941 Closed 1 October 1964<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by Just wood and dedicated to all who served at RAF Station Middleton-St-George<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middleton-St-George Blazon: A Canada Goose displayed proper holding the Blade of an Ancient Sword pommel and hilt to the sinister Argent Link: A Canada Goose commemorates the fact that Middleton-St-George \u2013 known locally as Goosepool \u2013 served as a Royal Canadian Air Force base during the 1939-45 War. An ancient sword is introduced in reference [&hellip;]<\/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\/9213"}],"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=9213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9215,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions\/9215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}