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Commemoration Day of Fallen Soldiers (Finnish: kaatuneiden muistopäivä) is the commemoration day on 3rd Sunday of May for the fallen soldiers of the Winter War and Finnish Civil War 1918. After 1940 is was also the day of commemoration of the fallen soldiers of the Continuation War and the Lapland War. There were also members of Lotta Svärd who also were victims of war serving in uniforms on the front.The idea of the day was raised in the bishops’ meeting in April 1940.