{"id":8604,"date":"2013-04-06T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8604"},"modified":"2013-04-06T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T22:00:07","slug":"navy-medics-carrying-stretcher-360-miles-for-charity-stopover-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8604","title":{"rendered":"Navy Medics carrying stretcher 360 miles for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13040501.jpg\" alt=\"Royal Navy Medics carry stretcher\" \/><br \/>\nTwo days ago members of the Royal Navy Medical Service started to carry a stretcher from the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in Birmingham (where injured personnel are first received) to Hasler Company recovery centre in Plymouth via Headley Court in Surrey , a distance of 360 miles in 14 days. This traces the route of injured service personnel on returning to the UK. <\/p>\n<p>Last night they stayed at Chipping Norton and were welcomed by the Prime Minister.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13040502.jpg\" alt=\"Royal Navy Medics carry stretcher\" \/><br \/>\nTonight they stayed in Abingdon. Tomorrow they stay at Henley.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13040503.jpg\" alt=\"Royal Navy Medics carry stretcher\" \/><br \/>\nThey were welcomed to Abingdon by a number of town councillors, The Mayor, and The Chair of the Vale District Council &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13040504.jpg\" alt=\"Royal Navy Medics carry stretcher\" \/><br \/>\nNicola Blackwood MP, and Ian Hudspeth, Leader of Oxfordshire County Council, were also there to show their support.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the &#8216;360 mile stretcher carry&#8217; which is raising money and awareness for service charities that support injured service personnel see <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180902015354\/http:\/\/www.rnmsstretchercarry.org.uk\/\">www.rnmsstretchercarry.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago members of the Royal Navy Medical Service started to carry a stretcher from the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in Birmingham (where injured personnel are first received) to Hasler Company recovery centre in Plymouth via Headley Court in Surrey , a distance of 360 miles in 14 days. This traces the route [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}