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Arved Viirlaid

Died in 2015

Arved Viirlaid was born on 11 April 1922 into a peasant family in the parish of Padise, in Harjumaa. A pupil at the Tallinn school of applied arts, during the German occupation he was a technical proofreader in a publishing house, then from 1941 to 1944 fought Soviet troops, as a forest brother and as a volunteer in Finland. Having returned in August 1944, he fled in October by sea to Finland and Sweden, lived in England from 1945 to 1953, then in Canada, where he worked in a print shop. In 1997 he refused an Estonian decoration and died near Toronto on 21 June 2015.

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