{"id":180099,"date":"2025-02-26T14:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T04:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1406814"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T04:35:19","slug":"nz-war-hero-comes-home-as-long-lost-medals-returned-to-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=180099","title":{"rendered":"NZ war hero comes home as long-lost medals returned to family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI2NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iMzYwIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1406815 wp-post-1406814\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" data-public-id=\"Australian Aviation\/download_d4edyk.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto\" data-version=\"1740544425\" data-responsive=\"1\" data-size=\"1200 675\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/>Chaplain Haydn Lea found Sergeant William O&#8217;Shea&#8217;s medals last year in a Perth military memorabilia shop, and noticed that they were missing a Royal Air Force Bomber Command Clasp, which were awarded decades after the war to those who served in Bomber Command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain Haydn Lea found Sergeant William O&#8217;Shea&#8217;s medals last year in a Perth military memorabilia shop, and noticed that they were missing a Royal Air Force Bomber Command Clasp, which were awarded decades after the war to those who served in Bomber &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,312,470,471],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-180099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-aviation","category-defence","category-news","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180279,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180099\/revisions\/180279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}