Unknown 1918 Finnish Cross
Article about: The French website posted by HPL2008 says it was created to mark the 20th anniversary of Vippula. Hope that helps!
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Unknown 1918 Finnish Cross
All,
I am hoping somebody can help me identify the second medal from the left. These are my Greatgrandfathers and after many hours on the web, I still can't find anything to Id this one. If anybody has any extra interesting facts about any of the others I would love to hear them.
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Re: Unknown 1918 Finnish Cross
According to its ribbon it's a medal for "Battle of Vilppula Commemorative Medal" 1918
Tom
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Re: Unknown 1918 Finnish Cross
Tom,
Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure that's the one as this one is a cross and the "Battle of Vilppula Commemorative Medal" was a round medal. Thanks all the same.
Scott
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Re: Unknown 1918 Finnish Cross
Sorry Scott, even after getting the name of the medal from looking at ribbons, I was unable to find a photo of the medal to compare.
Tom
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Re: Unknown 1918 Finnish Cross
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StuG III
Sorry Scott, even after getting the name of the medal from looking at ribbons, I was unable to find a photo of the medal to compare.
Best do a Google image search for the term "vilppulan risti"; you'll find several examples.
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Here's another site with the cross and what appears to be background history:
Finlande - Vilppula
(It's in French, which I admittedly don't speak.)
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Re: Unknown 1918 Finnish Cross
Great! Thanks a heap guys. The most informative so far.
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Re: Unknown 1918 Finnish Cross
From the Finlande - Vilppula site, Google Translate gave me this: "This medal commemorates the defensive battles conducted by the White forces between early February and mid March 1918 on what we might call the 'front' of Häme. But in fact there was no real front lines due to insufficient number of personnel of both sides, but only concentrations of troops in strategic locations."
Thanks again!
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Re: Unknown 1918 Finnish Cross
Andreas saves the day.
Tom
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