{"id":319252,"date":"2026-03-08T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/319252\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:08:08","slug":"hampshire-sculptor-begins-first-ever-royal-navy-wren-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/319252\/","title":{"rendered":"Hampshire sculptor begins first-ever Royal Navy Wren statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A sculptor has said she is marking International Women&#8217;s Day by starting work on what is thought to be the first-ever full statue of a Royal Navy Wren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amy Goodman&#8217;s figure will form part of the Coastal Forces memorial which is due to be unveiled in Portsmouth, Hampshire, in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The work will be modelled on the late Eve Branson, who served as a signaller during World War Two and was the mother of tycoon Sir Richard Branson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wrens &#8211; members of the Women&#8217;s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) &#8211; filled a variety of roles left by men between 1917 and 1993, serving in both world wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sculptor has said she is marking International Women&#8217;s Day by starting work on what is thought to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-319252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319252","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=319252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}