{"id":66993,"date":"2016-01-28T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6f7809ef9b8642e44c1389f03390a4be"},"modified":"2016-01-28T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:30:24","slug":"press-release-stephen-crabb-marks-contribution-of-wales-surviving-servicemen-of-normandy-landings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66993","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Stephen Crabb marks contribution of Wales&#8217; surviving servicemen of Normandy Landings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb has today attended an award ceremony in Cardiff where 12 veterans from Wales received France\u2019s highest military honour \u2013 the L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur. <\/p>\n<p>The honours recognise the selfless acts of heroism and determination displayed by all surviving veterans of the Normandy landings, and of the wider campaigns to liberate France in 1944.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"secretary-of-state-for-wales-stephen-crabb-said\">Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am immensely proud to attend this special ceremony today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">These are great men who displayed immense bravery and determination in the liberation of France. They now rightly take their place amongst a special group of brave servicemen and women to have been awarded the highest of French honours.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Legion d\u2019honneur was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 and is awarded in recognition of both military and civilian merit. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u00e9gion d\u2019honneur awarded to 12 veterans from Wales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}