Martin Volmer Jervan (13 May 1891

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

– 15 October 1942,

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) was an

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n major general and medical doctor. He served as head of the

Estonian Army The Estonian Land Forces (), unofficially referred to as the Estonian Army, is the name of the unified ground forces among the Estonian Defense Forces where it has an offensive military formation role. The Estonian Land Forces is currently the ...

medical service from 1935 until the Soviet occupation in 1940. After Estonia was incorporated into the Soviet Union on 6 August 1940 as the

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and the Estonian Army was reorganized as the 22nd Estonian Territorial Rifle Corps of the

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, Jervan served as the chief of the medical service of the 22nd Rifle Corps. On 8 March 1941 Jervan was arrested, deported and subsequently executed in

prison camp.

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