{"id":950045,"date":"2026-05-10T08:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950045\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T08:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:16:16","slug":"leeds-caribbean-world-war-two-veterans-honoured-with-new-plaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950045\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds Caribbean World War Two veterans honoured with new plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A memorial garden and plaque have been unveiled in Leeds to honour Caribbean war veterans.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The garden has been opened in memory of the Caribbean World War Two RAF veterans who settled in Leeds after the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 40 relatives of the RAF veterans attended the private opening event on Friday evening in Chapeltown, at the Jamaica Society Leeds&#8217; (JSL).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wendy Henry, Chair of JSL, said she hoped the garden would be &#8220;a long lasting, impactful space where people from the community and far and wide can come to just reflect, reminisce and just remember.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A memorial garden and plaque have been unveiled in Leeds to honour Caribbean war veterans. The garden has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-950045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116549293777105779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}