History / Norway’s Constitution Day marked at Shetland Bus memorial

17 May 2024 18:48

Two elderly women sit and talk outdoors. One holds a Norwegian flag and wears a cream shawl, while the other wears a black jacket with a red, white, and blue ribbon.

A MEMORIAL service for the Shetland Bus operation took place in a sunny Scalloway on Friday afternoon on Norway’s Constitution Day.

Thanks to Malcolm Younger of Millgaet Media for the photos.

There was also a parade through Lerwick’s Commercial Street earlier in the day, while the Norway flag flew on top of the town hall too.

A group of men stand together, one in the front holding a floral wreath with red, white, and blue flowers. They appear to be in an outdoor, possibly ceremonial, setting.

A Norwegian sailor laying a wreath. Photo: Malcolm Younger/Millgaet Media

A young girl holds a wreath made of red poppies and a Norwegian flag, standing outdoors among other people.

Photo: Malcolm Younger/Millgaet Media

A woman stands next to a stone structure with model boat, flanked by Norwegian and Scottish flags in a scenic outdoor location.

Gail Fraser, who lives in Scotland but whose dad was Norwegian Toralf Halvorsen who fled as an eighteen year old in 1940 with the Shetland Bus to Shetland before ending up in Little Norway in Canada, joining the Norwegian Air Force as a pilot and fighting against the Germans during the war. Photo: Malcolm Younger/Millgaet Media

A man in a suit speaks into a microphone while holding papers at an outdoor event. In the background, there is a stone structure and several other people.

Charlie Grant. Photo: Malcolm Younger/Millgaet Media

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