Editing Espoo (section)

===== Red and White Guards in Espoo =====
In Espoo, particularly [[Leppävaara]] was a restless area. The workers' association of Alberga founded an unarmed militia of ten people to uphold the general order. During summer and early autumn in 1917 there were local conflicts between the bourgeois guards and the workers' militia. In middle November the guards in Espoo on both sides had already started arming themselves.

In July 1917 the first bourgeois order guard was founded in [[Kauklahti]], under the guise of a voluntary fire brigade. A little later a similar organisation was founded in [[Kilo, Espoo|Kilo]], and these organisations joined forces in August to September.<ref name="kouvola"/>{{rp|56}} The guards had about 160 members in total at this point.<ref name="kouvola"/>{{rp|57}}

After the [[Finnish Civil War]] had broken out, many young men left Espoo to join the [[White Guard (Finland)|White Guards]] all over the countryside in Uusimaa. The most important of these was the Sigurds Guard in [[Kirkkonummi]], of whose members 40 came from Espoo.<ref name="kouvola"/>{{rp|48}}