{"id":1341,"date":"2017-07-27T00:17:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2020-05-01T11:53:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T03:53:37","slug":"albany-veterans-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"Albany Veterans honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Rick Wilson, Federal Member for O\u2019Connor and the Hon Dan Tehan MP Minister of Veteran affairs recently hosted a reception at Mr Wilson\u2019s Albany office for three survivors of World War II:<\/p>\n<p>Mr Neil MacPherson, a survivor of the Burma Thailand Railway and a slave worker in Japan;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Harold Martin, an ex-Prisoner of War of the Japanese and survivor of the sinking of the hellship Rakuy\u014d Maru onthe morning of 12 September 1944;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;and Mr Murray Maxton who flew in a Lancaster aircraft with the RAAF Bomber Command in 1944 over occupied Europe during World War II and was honoured by France for bravery with the Legion of Honour.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2129\" src=\"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dan-rick-harold-neil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1017\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dan-rick-harold-neil.jpg 1017w, http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dan-rick-harold-neil-300x134.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dan-rick-harold-neil-768x343.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo L&gt;R: The Hon Dan Tehan MP Minister of Veteran Affairs, Mr Harold Martin, Mr Rick Wilson Federal Member<br \/>\nfor O\u2019Connor and Mr Neil MacPherson.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Rick Wilson, Federal Member for O\u2019Connor and the Hon Dan Tehan MP Minister of Veteran affairs recently hosted a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.btrma.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}