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Sarang Tebuan Jangan Dijolok. No. 100 Squadron RAF.

These days with the lockdowns, we do get to explore the net in details. The slogan popped-up on my browser yesterday and I thought I gave it a search. Rather interesting that the No. 100 squadron still carries the Malay slogan till today. To the non locals, the slogan "Sarang Tebuan Jangan Dijolok" means "Don't stir up a hornet's nest". A bit of history to the slogan. Here are some background to it.  No. 100 was established on 23 February 1917 at Hingham in Norfolk as the Royal Flying Corps' first squadron formed specifically as a night bombing unit and comprised elements of the Home Defence Wing. The unit was mobilised and crossed from Portsmouth on 21 March 1917 to France and was first based at St Andre-aux-Bois, where it received twelve Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2Bs aircraft on complement. After the war, the squadron's night bombing duties, was later converted to torpedo bombing with new aircrafts from Fawley Fawn. By November 1932, when the firs

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