Origin of the Hungarian volunteers for Finland against the USSR in early 1940?

[Sid Guttridge]

The largest non-Scandinavian contingent of foreign volunteers to reach Finland during the Winter War of 1939-40 were Hungarian.

According to the book The Volunteers by Justin Brooke, about the British volunteers, there were some 350 Hungarians and they had military experience (unlike most British volunteers).

Given that Hungary had no conscription until late 1938, where did they get this military experience?

Was the Hungarian contingent sponsored by the Hungarian Government and did it consist of regular soldiers from the army?

What exactly was the origin of the Hungarian detachment and what relationship, if any, did it have with the Hungarian state?

Was it the distant ethnic relationship between the Finns and the Hungarians that prompted this high level of volunteerism? Or was it anti-Bolshevism?

Many thanks,

Sid.

[Sid Guttridge]

This article seems to answer all my questions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian ... Winter_War

Has anyone anything to add?

Cheers,

Sid