WAR TRAILSOF THE NORTHSUOMI
← All sites

Naantali, Velkuan hautausmaa

Naantali

Period
Unknown
Category
War cemetery
Location accuracy
Precise location

A war cemetery where those who fell in the wars are buried. 10 graves. Memorial designed by Ilmari Wirkkala. Unveiled 1941+1946.

Muistomerkin teksti: ”1939-1940 Sen suurempaa rakkautta ei_ole kenelläkään kuin että hän antaa henkensä ystäviensä edestä”

Entinen kunta: Velkua.

Access and getting there

Osoite: Kirkkotie 21, 21195 Naantali. Muistopaikka. Käyttäydy kunnioittavasti ja noudata alueen omia ohjeita.

Related photographs

Photographs of the same subject from the same municipality. They do not show this site — each caption says what it actually shows.

What happened here

Battles, troop movements and military operations recorded near this site.

  1. 18 September 1808

    Battle of Palva Sund

    Battle · Suomen sota · 1,6 km

    The Battle of Palva Sund was fought between Sweden and Russia during the Finnish War 1808–09.

    == Background == Part of the Swedish forces of the newly formed Swedish southern army of Finland landed with roughly 3 000 men consisting of 6 infantry battalions, 2 squadrons of cavalry and 2 artillery batteries under command of Major general Albrekt von Lantinghausen to Lokalax (Finnish: Lokalahti) on 17 September 1808. It was tasked with cutting road connections between Nystad and Åbo and then link up further to the north with earlier landed forces of Ernst von Vegesack. Troops were badly equipped some of the men lacking overcoats and had very limited amount of ammunition. Originally landing was to be done to a small village of Helsinki but news of the Russian coastal units near Palva made the commander to choose landing site further north. While initial landing was successful Russian cossack patrol had seen the landing and notified the Russian forces in the vicinity. Russian infantry, artillery and cavalry were sent to beat back the landing force all the way from Åbo. Already on 18 September Russians counterattacked the numerically superior Swedes who were soon forced to withdraw due to ammunition shortages. Withdrawal was successful and was completed in good order already before evening. Swedes lost 125 as dead or wounded and 15 and prisoners of war while Russian losses were around 200 dead and wounded. Von Lantinghausen requested to be relieved from duty due to illness and the annoyed King Gustav IV Adolf swiftly granted this assigning Lieutenant-Colonel Gustaf Olof Lagerbring as the new commander and tasked him with repeating the landing operation as soon as possible.

    Read more on Wikipedia · Wikipedian tekijät, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nearby

One site is rarely a trip on its own. These are the closest others.

Sources, licences and accuracy

Location accuracy: Precise location

Verification: 2026-07-31 (remote)