{"id":298077,"date":"2026-02-23T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298077\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:00:09","slug":"police-recover-suspected-stolen-wwii-medals-in-palmerston-north-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298077\/","title":{"rendered":"Police recover suspected stolen WWII medals in Palmerston North search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>23 Feb, 2026 06:32 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The medals include a 1939-1945 star, an Atlantic star, a Burma star, and the 1939-1945 war medal. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police have recovered four war medals during a search at a Palmerston North address and are now looking to find the owners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The medals were found during a search at an address in Kelvin Grove, and police believe they are stolen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The medals include<br \/>\n         a 1939-45 star, an Atlantic star, a Burma star, and the 1939-45 war medal.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Police believe these hold significant sentimental value and would like to return them to their rightful owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 23 Feb, 2026 06:32 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[78,49539,111,43,139,529,69,6292,675,59780,1870,4736,8841,41297],"class_list":{"0":"post-298077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-in","9":"tag-medals","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-north","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-palmerston","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-recover","18":"tag-search","19":"tag-stolen","20":"tag-suspected","21":"tag-wwii"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}