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History: | History: Formed at Ouston in Janaury 1943. | ||
[[File:{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|center|350 px|Coat of arms (crest) of the {{PAGENAME}}]] | [[File:{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|center|350 px|Coat of arms (crest) of the {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
A hand couped at the wrist gules holding a gun-barrel in bend Or.<br> | |||
Motto: Per terras | |||
===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
The Hand and Gun-Barrels refers to the directing Role as an Air Obeservation Post. The Motto translates as ”By land and sky”. The Badge was approved in September 1946. | |||
[[Literature]]: Image from picclick.com. Information from Knights of the Sky Badges and Markings of the Royal Air Force Part Five: Numbered Flying Squadrons by B.R. Holliss and R. Symons. | |||
[[Literature]]: Image from picclick.com | |||
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[[Category:Military heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | [[Category:Military heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | ||
[[Category:Air Force heraldry]] | [[Category:Air Force heraldry]] | ||
[[Category:Granted | [[Category:Granted 1946]] | ||