TIIHONEN, Toivo

engagement ring

marital status

not married

sex

M

citizenship

Finland

nationality

Finn

mother tongue

Finnish

number of children

0

occupation

farmer (mv.pka)

military rank

Pioneer (pioneeri)

unit

2./Pion.P 33 (2nd comp., Pioneer btln 33)

unit code

3534

date of birth

30.01.1916

municipality of birth

 

place of domicile

Kangasniemi

place of residence

 

date when person was wounded

 

place when person was wounded

 

municipality when person was wounded

 

date when person was disappeared

 

place when person was disappeared

 

municipality when person was disappeared

 

date of death

08.07.1944

place of death

Vuosalmi

municipality of death

Äyräpää

municipality of burial *

Kangasniemi

death class

was committed to rest, body remained in the field or was destroyed

* - 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.

ID tag had not been found, the identification had been based on heigth, teeth map and engagement ring with firther DNA analysis. More detailed: in Karelian Rampart livejournal, English summary is presented.

The remains were transferred to Finnish side 24.09.2006


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