{"id":58454,"date":"2015-02-26T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58454"},"modified":"2015-02-26T11:36:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T16:36:44","slug":"victoria-cross-for-lance-corporal-joshua-leakey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58454","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Cross for Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=58455\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58455\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Joshua-Leakey-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"Joshua Leakey\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Joshua-Leakey-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Joshua-Leakey-500x284.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Joshua-Leakey.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-31620764\">BBC<\/a>, Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey of the 1st Paras was awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing an American officer under heavy fire in Helmand Province of Afghanistan;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>L\/Cpl Leakey is the only living British soldier to receive a VC during the Afghan campaign. Two others have been awarded posthumously.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 15 Victoria Crosses awarded since the end of World War Two.<\/p>\n<p>L\/Cpl Leakey is among 139 military personnel recognised in the latest Operational Honours List. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lance Corporal Leakey tells the story in the 3 1\/2 minute video at the link.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EJitV4AMy0M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThanks to Andy11M and Art for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to BBC, Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey of the 1st Paras was awarded the Victoria Cross &hellip; <a title=\"Victoria Cross for Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58454\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Victoria Cross for Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}