Soldier from Three Wars

[christerd]

This is an quite interesting chain of miniatures , 

First he was in The Independence War 1918 , i guess not as an officer because no Liberty Cross ,  But Medal 2nd class 1918 and commerative medal with Rose and two battle bars 

He also has the Helsinki commerative Medal 1918-1938 so probably he was in the fight for the Capital.

He joined the Civil Guard and got the Merit Medal , he also has the Blue Cross with Bar 1917-1918 fpr servid during the war.

Then he got the com medal for the Winter War 1939-1940 so in some way he was in this war too.

But last but not least he was in the 8th Division during the continuation war 1941-1944 , he also got the Pro Benignitate Humana , about 4500 medals was given to foreigners for helping Finland during the 1941-45 wars, but only about 800 to Finnish people.

I wonder who he was , to bad he is not possible to identify .... 

[AleksiL]

Hey Christer

 

Did you also manage to get the larger medal bar? It is possible to find out the recipient with the numbering on the civil guard merit medal.

 

 

[JohanH]

38 minutes ago, AleksiL said:

Hey Christer

 

Did you also manage to get the larger medal bar? It is possible to find out the recipient with the numbering on the civil guard merit medal.

 

 

Interesting. 
How do you do to research a civil guard medal?

[AleksiL]

Hey Johan! I can't research any medals, a friend possibly can, the Finnish National Archives has atleast some documents so it's possible to find out a recipient with the numbering of the civil guard merit medal.

[JohanH]

So if I understand it correctly you are not 100% certain that it is possible?

But the information about the recipients should be at the National Archive?

 

 

The reason I ask is that I've heard years ago from another collector that it isn't possible to find any names to these medals. So I am curious if there are any new information about this. 

[AleksiL]

4 hours ago, JohanH said:

So if I understand it correctly you are not 100% certain that it is possible?

But the information about the recipients should be at the National Archive?

 

 

The reason I ask is that I've heard years ago from another collector that it isn't possible to find any names to these medals. So I am curious if there are any new information about this. 

Hey! The information should be with the national archives, they have done alot of new registering of the documents or something along those lines, so in my opinion and experience, yes it is possible but ONLY for the civil guard MERIT medal, other civil guard badges cannot really be tracked, maybe some numbers are mentioned in the Kansalliskirjasto, but those are only a few and require alot of work. 

[christerd]

On 12/10/2023 at 15:44, AleksiL said:

Hey Christer

 

Did you also manage to get the larger medal bar? It is possible to find out the recipient with the numbering on the civil guard merit medal.

 

Hi , No only got the mini 

 

[FRE_A_K]

Maybe the seller can tell you the number...
https://www.tradera.com/item/292201/612603027/finland-spanne-med-8-medaljer