Erik Welle-Strand

Erik A. L. Welle-Strand (2 June 1916(??) – 17 July 2001) was a Norwegian mining engineer and resistance member during World War II. He is best known as leader of the illegal radio post Skylark B.

He was born in June 1915(??) in Bergen. He was a brother of Erling Welle-Strand. As a teenager he was active in the theater (Den Nationale Scene), prior to beginning his compulsory military service in 1935. He also worked briefly as a coal miner for Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani, before enrolling at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1936.

He returned to Bergen in January 1940, stationed at an anti-air battery to guard the Norwegian neutrality in World War II. However, on 9 April Nazi Germany invaded Norway. Welle-Strand became involved in the subsequent fighting, first at the anti-air battery, later during a retreat to the mountains of Hardanger. The Norwegian troops went to Voss and Leikanger; Welle-Strand then parted ways with them and made his way via Finland and Finnmark to Tromsø. He escaped from there to England with the naval ship Heilhorn.

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