Martin Ekström

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Martin Eugen Ekström

Martin Eugen Ekström (6 December 1887 – 28 December 1954) was a

Finnish Winter War.[1] He died in Helsinki
, aged 67.

Career

Ekström was born in By, Kopparberg County, the son of Anders Gustav Ekström and his wife Johanna Mathilda (née Eriksson).[2] He graduated from the Artillery School in 1916 and completed the German officers examination in Turkey in 1916. Ekström was military instructor of the Persian Gendarmerie from 1911 to 1915 and was chief of staff of Vaasa White Guard District. He participated in the Finnish Civil War, the Estonian War of Independence and the Lithuanian Wars of Independence.[2]

Ekström was the leader of the

Viipuri massacre.[3]

Personal life

In 1920 he married Gladys Kurtén (born 1896), the daughter of Karl Henrik Kurtén and Florence Emma Elliott.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2004-10-20. Retrieved 2004-10-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Tendens.se.
  2. ^ a b c Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1933 [Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1933] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. 1932. p. 210.
  3. ^ Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1943 [Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1943] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. 1940. p. 205.

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