Göta_Signal_Regiment

Göta Signal Corps

Göta Signal Corps

Former Swedish Army unit

The Göta Signal Corps (Swedish: Göta signalkår), designations S 1 Sk and S 2, was a Swedish Army signal unit, one of the few new formations raised in the 20th century. It was disbanded in 1997. The unit was garrisoned in Västergötland.

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History

Line-up of Signal Troops at Göta Signal Regiment (S 2) in 1984.

The unit has its origins in a 1944 detached company, Signalregementets kompani i Skövde, of Signal Regiment that was garrisoned in Skövde. The company gained the designation S 1 Sk (1st Signal Regiment, Skövde detachment), and was in 1958 upgraded to a separate battalion, and gained the designation S 2.

The battalion was transferred to Karlsborg in 1961 and was renamed Göta Signal Regiment in 1962 when it was upgraded to regimental size. The Swedish Army Paratroop School was attached to the regiment from 1961 until the regiment was disbanded in 1984. However one battalion of the regiment was kept as part of Life Regiment Hussars as Göta Signal Battalion until it was disbanded in 1997.

Campaigns

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Organisation

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Heraldry and traditions

Colours, standards and guidons

On 25 August 1962, His Majesty the King Gustaf VI Adolf presented a colour to the then Göta Signal Regiment. When Karlsborg Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Lv 1) was disbanded on 31 March 1961, its colour was transferred to Göta Signal Regiment, which carried it on certain occasions. On 1 July 1984, Göta Signal Regiment was amalgamated as a training battalion into the Life Regiment Hussars (K 3). The colour was then transferred to the Anti-Aircraft Combat School (Luftvärnsskjutskolan, LvSS) on 8 October 1984.[2] Since 1 July 2000, the memory of Karlsborg Anti-Aircraft Regiment is maintained by the Air Defence Regiment (Lv 6).[3]

On 30 April 1996, Supreme Commander, general Owe Wiktorin presented a new colour to Göta Signal Battalion at the Artillery Yard in Stockholm. It was drawn by Kristina Holmgård-Åkerberg and embroidered by machine in insertion technique by the company Libraria. It was used as battalion colour by S 2 until 1 January 1998. Blazon: "On green cloth in the centre a circular shield showing the coat of arms of the unit; azure, three wavy white bends sinister charged with a crowned double-tailed yellow lion rampant, armed and langued gules. The shield ensigned with a royal crown proper. In the first corner a mullet with a cluster of rays and in the second corner the insignia of the Swedish Army Signal Troops; an erect sword entwined with a bolt, all yellow".[4]

Coat of arms

The coat of the arms of the Göta Signal Regiment (S 2) 1977–1994 and the Göta Signal Battalion (K 3/S 2) 1994–1997. Blazon: "Azure, the regimental badge, a double-tailed lion rampant or armed and langued gules. The shield surmounted a cluster of bolts, or".[5]

Commanding officers

  • 1958–1960: Nils Fredrik Schale
  • 1960–1970: Tage Ingemar Bratt
  • 1970–1976: Karl Edvin Eriksson
  • 1976–1980: Håkan Hallgren
  • 1980–1982: Åke Bertil Gunnar Lövdahl
  • 1982–1984: Kurt Olofsson
  • 1984–1987: Per Granath
  • 1987–1989: Nils Göran Anders Nilsson
  • 1989–1991: Bengt-Åke Gelin
  • 1991–1993: Christer Birger Levin
  • 1993–1995: Christer Carl Einar Ejnarsson
  • 1995–1997: Per Jörgen Ivhammar

Names, designations and locations

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See also

Footnotes

  1. [N 1]
    The march was established by Army Order 418/1962.[1]

References

Notes

  1. [1]
    Sandberg 2007, p. 21
  2. [2]
    "Standar m/1938". www.digitaltmuseum.se (in Swedish). 11 August 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  3. [3]
    Braunstein 2003, pp. 225–226
  4. [4]
    Braunstein 2004, p. 42
  5. [5]
    Braunstein 2006, p. 36

Print

  • Braunstein, Christian (2003). Sveriges arméförband under 1900-talet. Skrift / Statens försvarshistoriska museer, 1101-7023 ; 5 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Statens försvarshistoriska museer. ISBN 91-971584-4-5. SELIBR 8902928.
  • Braunstein, Christian (2004). Svenska försvarsmaktens fälttecken efter millennieskiftet [The flags and standards of the Swedish armed forces after the turn of the millennium] (PDF). Skrift / Statens försvarshistoriska museer, 1101-7023 ; 7 [dvs 8] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Statens försvarshistoriska museer. ISBN 91-971584-7-X. SELIBR 9815350. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-05-22. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  • Braunstein, Christian (2006). Heraldiska vapen inom det svenska försvaret [Heraldry of the Swedish Armed Forces] (PDF). Skrift / Statens försvarshistoriska museer, 1101-7023 ; 9 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Statens försvarshistoriska museer. ISBN 91-971584-9-6. SELIBR 10099224. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-11-25. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  • Sandberg, Bo (2007). Försvarets marscher och signaler förr och nu: marscher antagna av svenska militära förband, skolor och staber samt igenkännings-, tjänstgörings- och exercissignaler (in Swedish) (New ed.). Stockholm: Militärmusiksamfundet med Svenskt marscharkiv. ISBN 978-91-631-8699-8. SELIBR 10413065.

Further reading

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Göta Signal Corps.
  • Carlsson, Gunnar, ed. (1963). Kungl. Göta Signalregemente (in Swedish). SELIBR 12140389.
  • Olofsson, Kurt, ed. (1984). Göta signalregemente 1961-1984 (in Swedish). Karlsborg: Regementet. SELIBR 447293.
  • Andersson-Hultin, Inger, ed. (1999). S 2: Göta signalbataljon/signalkår 1984-1997 (in Swedish). Karlsborg: Signalkåren. SELIBR 3104311.
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