Farstad, Olaf

Also given as ‘Olav Farstad’

Norwegian policeman of Trondhiem

Oslo, Sunday.  A police constable named Farstad, of Trondhjem, who intends later to make an attempt to swim the British Channel, today swam from Oslo to Droeback in 18 hours, the distance between the two places corresponding to that between Dover and Calais
05 July 1926 – Aberdeen Press and Journal