Eino Lehtinen

Eino Arvid Lehtinen (10 April 1900 – 2 January 2007) was a soldier, teacher and writer. At the age of 106 years and nine months, he was one of the last surviving veterans of the Finnish Civil War, and one of the oldest people in Finland at the time of his death. Lehtinen served with the White Guard, of iconic Finn Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, during the Finnish Civil War of 1918, after the country had declared independence from the Russian Empire.