Shortly after midnight, 96-year-old British former soldier Marie Scott lit the liberation fire in Wageningen. It is the first time that the liberation fire has been lit by a female veteran.
Scott lit the fire together with mayor Floor Vermeulen at Hotel de Wereld, the place where in May 1945 the negotiations about the capitulation of the German occupiers took place. Some 1,700 relay runners from 87 municipalities then spread the flame to dozens of municipalities in the country for Liberation Day.
Scott was active during World War II. For example, she was with the liaison service of the British army in Portsmouth. On and after D-day, the Allied landing on the beaches of Normandy on 6 June 1944, she relayed messages to the front.
Together with fifteen other British veterans, Scott traveled to the Netherlands on Wednesday to attend the commemoration of the end of the Second World War. The very elderly veterans will also take the lead in the Liberation Defile in Wageningen on 5 May. Around 1,500 veterans from numerous missions in which the Netherlands has participated since the Second World War will participate in the parade.
The fire from Wageningen is lit, among other things, at the fourteen Liberation Festivals that take place in the country on Friday.
2023-05-04 22:29:57
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