Swedish born soldiers. They gave their life. We will remember them.
A research project by Major Joacim Hallberg, Swedish Armed Forces.
My name is Joacim Hallberg, and I am working as an Army officer, Major, in the Swedish Armed Forces. I have served in several missions abroad in Bosnia, Afghanistan and in Mali.
During the latest years I have developed a huge passion for The Great War, and have visited the battlefields especially in Belgium and in France.
One evening, many years ago in Ypres in West Flanders, I discovered Swedish names on the Menin Gate Memorial, and that was the starting point for my research about Swedes in the Great War.
My delimitation in my research are individuals born in Sweden that fought for their new countries, or armies of their choice, in The Great War, fell at the Western Front, and are buried or commemorated there.
I want to connect the individuals to the terrain, where they were when they fell at the Western Front, and where they have their final rest, or the places where those who don't have their own headstone, are commemorated.
I want you to know that they are there, on the battlefields of the Great War, in Europe and on other places. I want the Swedes to read about this, maybe visit those places with some help of the facts that I have gathered.
Every article tells the story of Swedish-born soldiers who fought and fell in the Great War
599 Swedish-born soldiers documented — they gave their lives in the Great War
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Cemeteries and memorials where Swedish soldiers are buried or commemorated
25 major engagements where Swedish-born soldiers fought and fell — click any event to explore