No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF

No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF
Active24 April 1918 – 24 June 1919
16 March 1936 – 10 August 1945
1 December 1959 – 23 August 1963
CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Branch Royal Air Force
RolePrecision Bombing
Garrison/HQFrance, RAF Marham, RAF Downham Market
Nickname(s)Gold Coast
Weston-super-Mare’s Own Squadron
Motto(s)"In Time"[1]
Insignia
Squadron Badge heraldryAn hourglass. The hourglass symbolises the late forming of the squadron during the 1914–18 war, the golden sand having almost run through.[1]
Squadron Codes218 Jan 1938 - Apr 1939
SV Apr–Sep 1939
HA Sep 1939 – Aug 1945
XH (only used by 'C' Flt)[2]

No. 218 Squadron RAF was a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was also known as No 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron after the Governor of the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) and people of the Gold Coast officially adopted the squadron.[3]

  1. ^ a b Pine, L. G. (1983). A Dictionary of Mottoes. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. p. 112. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.
  2. ^ "Sqn Histories 216–220_U". www.rafweb.org.
  3. ^ "RAF - Bomber Command No.218 Squadron". Archived from the original on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2016.