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The RAFBF crest
Before the RAFBF’s present ‘Heart Roundel’ logo, the RAF Benevolent Fund used the Pelican Crest, adopted in 1976 after years of negotiation with the Royal College of Arms.
The design, the ‘Pelican in Piety’, was chosen because the RAFBF felt it symbolized the care which guides our decisions. This was based on an old belief that the pelican has the greatest love of all creatures for its young, and pierces its breast to feed them with blood. The Pelican also symbolizes Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. Psalm 102:6 reads: “I am like a pelican of the wilderness”, an accepted allusion to Christ.
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