Verna Erikson

Verna Erikson, smuggler for the Helsinki White Guard, with hidden ammunition and pistol, in the spring of 1918, in the middle of the Finnish Civil War. Colorization by Julius Jääskeläinen.

Verna Erikson (11 April 1893 – 16 October 1918) was a Finnish woman whose picture, taken when she was a weapon smuggler (shown on the right) was an icon of White Finland. This picture was taken in the spring of 1918, during the Finnish Civil War, when Erikson was a student at the Helsinki University of Technology.

Erikson died of cancer in 1918.