Finnish Forces

P.O.W.

Finnish POW Hjalmar Vesterinen photographed somewhere near Leningrad on August 20, 1941. He was unmarried fisherman from Koivisto, Karelian Isthmus, born in 1897. He served in 56th Infantry Regiment and was listed as MIA on July 19, 1941, in Suojärvi, Ladoga Karelia. He died in a Soviet POW camp at Karaganda, Kazakhstan, on September 18, 1942. 13 months after this photo was taken.