{"id":297963,"date":"2025-11-20T22:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297963\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:14:13","slug":"rare-wwii-oam-medals-stolen-from-melbourne-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297963\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare WWII, OAM medals stolen from Melbourne home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s believed the thief broke into a home on Buchan Court in Wantirna South, sometime between 3pm on Wednesday, November 5, and 7pm on Thursday, November 6.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was home at the time.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>A number of personal items were stolen, including an Order of Australia medal, and a distinctive Tobruk Rats medal.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian War Memorial says the Tobruk Rats medal is an unofficial medal created during the Siege of Tobruk in 1941 for the Australian soldiers serving there.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Anybody with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s believed the thief broke into a home on Buchan Court in Wantirna South, sometime between 3pm on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-297963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}