Brita Ahlbäck, who is said to have been the inspiration for Lotta Svärd in Johan Ludvig Runeberg’s “Tales of Ensign Stål”, lived here between 1827 and 1848. Brita Ahlbäck followed her husband, standard bearer Ahlbäck, to the front, working there as a military canteen orderly. Finland’s first “Lotta Svärd“ association (a Finnish voluntary auxiliary organisation for women) was established in Kokkola in 1921.
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