{"id":1958,"date":"2013-01-17T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?1958"},"modified":"2013-01-17T10:55:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T10:55:16","slug":"david-beckham-and-ray-winstone-meet-injured-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/david-beckham-and-ray-winstone-meet-injured-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"David Beckham and Ray Winstone meet injured soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"
David Beckham and Ray Winstone have visited wounded soldiers during a visit to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.<\/p>\n
Both the footballer and actor popped in to give troops injured on the front line a morale boost as they continue their recovery, the Daily Mirror reports.<\/p>\n
The pair spent 90 minutes chatting with people and posing for photographs, before holding a meeting with staff from the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine.<\/p>\n
This centre seeks to provide medical support to military operational deployments, while it is also a dedicated training centre.<\/p>\n
A military source told the paper: "Both stars were made very welcome during their trip … It was clear that both David and Ray knew that the real stars of the day were the military people."<\/p>\n
Once the pair had finished their trip, they stopped by the Teenage Cancer Trust's Young Persons' Unit and spent some time there as well.<\/p>\n
Posted by Samantha Thompson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Footballer David Beckham and actor Ray Winstone have met some injured soldiers in Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n