A 64-year-old man has been arrested following reports that an individual allegedly posed as a highly decorated naval officer at a town\u2019s Remembrance Sunday event in Clwyd.<\/p>\n
The man reportedly turned up unannounced at the war memorial in Llandudno wearing the Royal Navy uniform of a rear admiral on 9 November.<\/p>\n
The medals were said to include the prestigious Distinguished Service Order (DSO), the second-highest military award for gallantry.<\/p>\n
Images show the man take a place alongside a senior army officer and laying a wreath at the war memorial before standing back to salute it.<\/p>\n
Llandudno town council and the lord lieutenant for Clwyd later said they believed the man was an impostor.<\/p>\n
On Friday, North Wales police said a man, from Harlech, was arrested on suspicion of offences relating to the unlawful use of military uniforms.<\/p>\n
Ch Insp Trystan Bevan said inquiries were continuing. \u201cWe can confirm that, during a search of the male\u2019s address earlier today, a naval uniform and a selection of medals were recovered from within. Further updates on this investigation will be provided when available.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier in the week, a spokesperson for the council: \u201cWe are aware of allegations there is a man who did attend the Remembrance Sunday parade pretending to be a rear admiral from north Wales. He was not somebody we were aware of in advance, we weren\u2019t told that he would be attending.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur parade marshal did go up and speak to him and was told he was from the Lord Lieutenant\u2019s office. He did lay his wreath respectfully and behaved well before leaving. Since then we have had reports about whether this man was who he said he was.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 64-year-old man has been arrested following reports that an individual allegedly posed as a highly decorated naval…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-262979","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}