Battle of Ahvenkoski: Difference between revisions

 

== Aftermath ==

13 Germans died during the attack of 22 and 23{{nbsp}}April.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.helsinki.fi/~jjeerola/englskuol.htm|title=Suomen sotatoimissa 1918 ja niiden yhteydessä surmansa saaneiksi tai kadonneiksi ilmoitetut saksalaissotilaat|last=Eerola|first=Jari|date=|website=|publisher=University of Helsinki|language=fi|access-date=2017-07-23}}</ref> According to a Finnish casualty database, at least 14 reds died during the battle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vesta.narc.fi/cgi-bin/db2www/sotasurmaetusivu/main?lang=en|title=The registry of names of the war dead between 1914–1922|last=|first=|date=2004-05-19|year=2001|website=|publisher=[[National Archives of Finland]]|accessdate=2017-07-23}}</ref> Seven Germans were buried in Ahvenkoski Cemetery,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/misc_laender/ruotsinpyhtaeae.htm|title=Ruotsinpyhtää, Friedhof Ahvenkoski, Provinz Uusimaa, Finnland|author=|publisher=Onlineprojekt Gefallenendenkmäler|date=|accessdate=1 September 2017|language=de}}</ref> as well as an unknown number of Reds. A memorial on the Red mass grave was erected in 1946.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tpertt.blogspot.fi/2013/06/punaisten-muistomerkit-kymenlaaksossa.html|title=Punaisten muistomerkit Kymenlaaksossa|author=Perttilä, Tommi|publisher=Sekalaista propagandaa|date=17 June 2013|accessdate=1 September 2017|language=fi}}</ref> In September 2013, a memorial to the end of the Civil War was unveiled at the site where the last Reds surrendered.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.loviisansanomat.net/lue.php?id=6522&vo=50|title=Muistakaa ja unohtakaa|author=Kosonen, Eija|publisher=Loviisan Sanomat|date=10 September 2013|accessdate=1 September 2017|language=fi}}</ref> The Battle of Ahvenkoski was the last action of the Civil War, but the White Army Commander-in-Chief [[C. G. E. Mannerheim]] did not declare the war over until 16{{nbsp}}May, when the Russians had left [[Fort Ino]] near [[Petrograd]].<ref name="apunen" />