List of former Finnish military units

This is a list of former Finnish military units.

## Pre-independence

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Unit  | Established  | Disestablished  | Notes

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27th Jäger Battalion (Finland)

| 1915  | 1918  | Unit in the Imperial German Army composed mainly of Finnish volunteers.
Finnish Artillery Regiment

| 1794  | 1811  | Part of the Swedish Army.
Finnish Guards' Rifle Battalion

| 1829  | 1905  | Part of the Military of the Grand Duchy of Finland

## Wartime formations

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### Finnish Civil War

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* White Guard (Finland)
* Red Guards (Finland)

### Winter War

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#### Army of the Isthmus

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* I Corps
* 1st Division
* 2nd Division (former 11th Division)
* II Corps
* 1st Division
* 4th Division
* 5th Division
* 6th Division \- attached on 19 December
* 11th Division
* 23rd Division \- arrived in February 1940

#### Others

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* III Corps
* 8th Division
* 10th Division (later the 7th Division)
* IV Corps
* 12th Division
* 13th Division
* Separate Battalion 8
* Separate Battalion 9
* Separate Bicycle Company 4
* Swedish Volunteer Corps – Svenska Frivilligkåren, arrived in 1940
* Lapland Group
* North Finland Group
* North Karelian Group

### Continuation War

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#### Armies

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* Army of Karelia

#### Corps

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* I Corps
* II Corps
* III Corps
* IV Corps
* V Corps
* VI Corps
* VII Corps

#### Divisions

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* 1st Division
* 2nd Division
* 3rd Division
* 4th Division
* 5th Division
* 6th Division – formed the 12th Brigade in 1942, reformed as 6th Division in 1943
* 7th Division
* 8th Division
* 10th Division
* 11th Division
* 12th Division – formed 3rd Brigade in 1941
* 14th Division
* 15th Division
* 17th Division
* 18th Division
* 19th Division – disbanded in 1942
* Armoured Division – formed in 1942
* Division J – formed in August 1941, disbanded in August 1942
* 1st Coast Division – a Naval Forces unit, formed in July 1944

## Peacetime units

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### Army

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Unit  | Established  | Disestablished

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Artillery Brigade | 1992  | 2014
Central Finland Engineer Battalion | 1967  | 2014
Häme Jaeger Battalion | 1918  | 2003
Häme Regiment | 1986  | 2014
North Karelia Brigade | 1990  | 2013[1]
Pohja Brigade | 1957[2] | 1998[2]
Pohjanmaa Artillery Regiment | 1957  | 1998
Savo Brigade | 1775[3] | 2006[3]
Signal Regiment | 1938  | 2014

### Navy

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Unit  | Established  | Disestablished

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Archipelago Sea Naval Command | 1998  | 2014
Gulf of Finland Naval Command | 1998  | 2014
Coastal Jaeger Battalion | 1960  | 1989
Finnish Ladoga Naval Detachment | 1920  | 1944
Hanko Coastal Artillery Battalion | 1952  | 2002
Kotka Coastal Artillery Battalion | 1952  | 2013[1]
Vaasa Coastal Artillery Battalion | 1952  | 1998
Turku Coastal Regiment | 1939  | 1998

### Air Force

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Unit  | Established  | Disestablished

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Training Air Wing | 1918  | 2015
Aircraft and Weapon Systems Training Wing | 1923  | 2013
Häme Air Command | 1957  | 1974
Flying Regiment 1 | 1938  | 1952
Flying Regiment 2 | 1938  | 1952
Flying Regiment 3 | 1938  | 1952
Flying Regiment 4 | 1938  | 1952
Reconnaissance Squadron |  | 1996

## See also

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* List of military units in Finnish Defense Forces

## References

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1. ^ a b "Military cost-savings reform in Finland". Barentsobserver. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
2. ^ a b "Pohjan Prikaati". www.pohjanprikaatinkilta.fi. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
3. ^ a b "Savon prikaatista ilmestyi kattava historiikki". Kaleva.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2019-12-17.