{"id":570922,"date":"2026-05-07T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570922\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:03:09","slug":"guernsey-ww2-liberation-hero-honoured-in-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570922\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey WW2 liberation hero honoured in sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Conducting extremely risky missions Coastal Forces displayed impressive daring and resolve throughout the Second World War,&#8221; said Kyd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Channel Islands, which is marking Liberation Day on Friday and Saturday, were the only part of the British Isles to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c93gn7l3v4eo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">occupied by Nazi Germany during World War Two.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It turned the surrounding waters into a &#8220;frontline&#8221;, the Coastal Forces Heritage Trust said, where Coastal Forces crews carried out dangerous missions near occupied shores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raids, convoy interceptions and reconnaissance sorties, as well as &#8220;fierce firefights&#8221; with enemy coastal forces, were often aided by the Royal Naval Volunteer reserve (RNVR), who were civilian volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Conducting extremely risky missions Coastal Forces displayed impressive daring and resolve throughout the Second World War,&#8221; said Kyd.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-570922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570922","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=570922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}