The Civil Guards, as well as the opposing Red Guards, were formed to fill security deficits caused by Russian uprisings. At the beginning of 1918, the Civil Guards were still in the middle of getting armed and organized. Old officers and NCOs had initially served as instructors, but returning jägers had brought valuable training help […]

In May 1918, Chief of Rear Services Rudolf Walden assigned a committee to discuss the future of the Civil Guard. Volunteers were faster to act, and in June, a meeting to develop the operations of the Guard was held in Viitasaari among the Guards of Central Finland. A national assembly soon convened in Jyväskylä, where

Defence against gas warfare became a topic of interest in the 1920s after the First World War. Lectures on the subject were first held in 1923, and a school of gas defence was established in Vyborg in 1933. Anti-gas forces became part of the military. Today, they are involved in military engineering, and new recruits