Peaked cap from Spanish Republican Army, used by machine gun corp captain Paavo Koskinen in the Spanish civil war. A couple of hundred Finns went to war to defend the republicans while 14 persons from Finland fought for Franco. Koskinen was a volunteer in an international brigade under pseudonym Gunnar Ebb. He was the machine-gun commander of the Canadian-based Mackenzie-Papineau battalion and later, in autumn 1938, for some time the commander of the whole battalion.
Peaked cap from Spanish Republican Army, used by machine gun corp captain Paavo Koskinen in the Spanish civil war. A couple of hundred Finns went to war to defend the republicans while 14 persons from Finland fought for Franco. Koskinen was a volunteer in an international brigade under pseudonym Gunnar Ebb. He was the machine-gun commander of the Canadian-based Mackenzie-Papineau battalion and later, in autumn 1938, for some time the commander of the whole battalion.
