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marital status |
not married |
sex |
M |
citizenship |
Finland |
nationality |
Finn |
mother tongue |
Finnish |
number of children |
0 |
occupation |
farmer (mv.) |
military rank |
Private (Sotamies) |
unit |
7./3.Pr. (7th comp., 3rd Inf.Brigade) |
unit code |
1296 |
date of birth |
14.05.1924 |
municipality of birth |
Säyneinen |
place of domicile |
Säyneinen |
place of residence |
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date when person was wounded |
|
place when person was wounded |
|
municipality when person was wounded |
|
date when person was disappeared |
17.06.1944 |
place when person was disappeared |
|
municipality when person was disappeared |
Uusikirkko |
date of death |
17.06.1944 |
place of death |
|
municipality of death |
|
municipality of burial * |
Juankoski |
death class |
disappeared, officially pronounced dead |
* - There are (commonly) no not buried soldiers in Finland. The place in military cemeteries are reserved and gravestones are prepared for all the soldiers, even MIA. So re-burying of recently found remains cannot make a disorder in the cemetery.
The remains were transferred to Finnish side 01.05.2004
The data was obtained from Finnish Military archive (Sota-Arkisto).
He started military service in 1942. His special trained gun was rapid-firing gun but he was a rifle man. He was in East-Karelien, Krivi, 2.10.1943 - 26.3.1944 and after that in delaying action in Karelian Isthmus. He was pronounced dead by court in 16.2.1948.
According the military basic card (sotilaskantakortti) Antti Hiltunen was in military conscription on 2.10.42 (class A I), entered his military service on 27.10.42 in 6./Jv. Koul. K 3 (6th company of 3rd Infantry Training Center), soldier's oath 6.12.42, was moved 27.2.43 to unit 3570 (3./Tayd. P 3) (3rd company of Replacement Battalion 3) in that 4.3.43-28.9.43, moved 2.10.43 to 7./3.Pr.
Thanks to Heikki Hakala for gathering and translating this information!
Source: http://www.mil.fi