Veteraanimuistomerkki, Tuulos

Period: Unknown
Category: Memorial
Location accuracy: Precise location

A memorial related to the wars.

Access and getting there

Syrjäntaka, Tuuloksen seurakuntakeskuksen takana kalliolla, Pappilantie 17. Muistopaikka — käyttäydy kunnioittavasti.

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.

28 April 1918 – 29 April 1918
Battle of Syrjäntaka
Battle · Suomen sisällissota · 389 m
Battle of Syrjäntaka was a 1918 Finnish Civil War battle fought on 28–29 April in Syrjäntaka, Tuulos, between the German Baltic Sea Division and the Finnish Red Guards. Thousands of Red refugees were fleeing east, while they were blocked by a small unit of Germans at a highway crossing in the small village of Syrjäntaka. After hours of desperate fighting, the Reds managed to break through and continue their journey. The Battle of Syrjäntaka and the preceding battle in Hauho were the only battles the Germans lost during their one-month military campaign in Finland. They were also the last Red victories of the 1918 civil war. The battle itself was totally unnecessary. It had no effect on the result of the war and neither side gained anything as the fleeing Reds were captured only a couple of days later.
== Background == After the city of Tampere had fallen on 6 April, the Red Guard general staff ordered their troops to retreat to the eastern part of Red controlled Finland in order to form a new front behind the river Kymijoki. The Reds first started fleeing from Tampere, Pori and Turku and were soon joined by Reds from the Helsinki area as the Germans took the city on 13 April. In the three weeks, tens of thousands of Red Guard fighters, their family members and other Red supporters were marching east. About 25,000 travelled through the town of Hämeenlinna in the southern part of Tavastia province. As the Germans were closing Hämeenlinna in 25–26 April, there was still up to 4,000 refugees in town. The road heading east from Hämeenlinna was now blocked, so the Reds had to make their way through a new route: first 30 kilometres north, then across the small river of Alvettula and back southwards to Hauho and Tuulos.
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23 June 1944
Venäläisen merijalkaväen maihinnousu Tuuloksessa onnistui. Se katkaisi Laatokan rantatieyhteyden. Suomalaisten vastatoimet epäonnistuivat.
Military operation · Tuulos · 1,0 km
26 June 1944
Venäläiset saivat Tuuloksessa yhteyden Aunuksenkaupungista etenevien rintamajoukkojen ja maihin nousuosaston välille.
Military operation · Tuulos · 1,0 km