Field Telegraph Corps ( Swedish : Fälttelegrafkåren ), designation Ing 3 , was a Swedish engineering unit within the Swedish Armed Forces which served in various forms between 1902 and 1937. The main part of the unit was located in the Stockholm Garrison in Stockholm , Uppland .
7-655: The Field Telegraph Corps was established in 1902 and was organized by the Fields Telegraph Company of the Svea Engineer Battalion , in connection with the battalion's reorganization into Svea Engineer Corps , together with a newly established Field Telegraph Company. The unit changed after a few years the designation to Ing 3. A detachment from the Field Telegraph Corps was during the years 1912-1916 deployed at Axevalla heath and Malmen and formed
14-888: The King Gustaf V at the 300th Anniversary of the Fortifikationen ("Royal Engineers") in Stockholm. It was carried from 1 January 1998 by the Norrland Engineer Corps . When the colour was taken out of use, it was not handed over to the Swedish Army Museum but was exhibited at Ing 1's museum on Laxön. The colour couldn't therefore be admitted to the Swedish Army Museum collection until 2012. In 1997, Svea ingenjörskårs (Ing 1) minnesmedalj ("Svea Engineer Corps (Ing 1) Commemorative Medal") i silver (SveaingSMM) of
21-725: The backbone of the army air force. The detachment was reorganized in 1916 into the Field Telegraph Corps' 5th Company, the Air Company, which was deployed at Malmen from 1916 to 1926 when the Swedish Air Force was established. In the Signal Workshop in Sundbyberg ( Signalverkstaden i Sundbyberg , SIS) was included in the Field Telegraph Corps, which in 1940 added the newly established Defense Department's Engineering Committee ( Försvarsväsendets verkstadsnämnd ). The Field Telegraph Corps
28-409: The designation Ing 1 (1st Engineer Regiment). That same year, the field telegraphy company that had been attached to the unit became independent and later formed Uppland Regiment . Svea Engineer Corps was upgraded to a regiment in 1957 and was renamed Svea Engineer Regiment. It was then downgraded to a battalion unit again in 1994, just three years before the unit was disbanded, in 1997. The regiment
35-579: Was disbanded in 1937 and formed the backbone of the Signal Regiment (S 1). In accordance with the 1914 Defense Resolution the Field Telegraph Corps consisted of: Commanders of the Field Telegraph Corps: Svea Engineer Corps The Svea Engineer Corps ( Swedish : Svea ingenjörkår ), designation Ing 1 , was a Swedish Army engineer unit that traced its origins back to the 19th century. It
42-563: Was disbanded in 1997. The unit was garrisoned in Uppland and Södermanland . The unit has its origins in Sapper Company raised in 1855. The company was reorganised to a battalion -sized unit in 1864 and was renamed Sapper Corps. This unit was transformed to a pontoon bridge battalion, Pontoon Battalion, in 1867. The battalion then changed its name once again in 1893 to Svea Engineer Battalion, and in 1902 to Svea Engineer Corps, when it gained
49-610: Was garrisoned in Stockholm , Solna and Södertälje during its lifetime. The coat of the arms of the Svea Engineer Regiment (Ing 1) 1977–1994 and the Svea Engineer Corps (Ing 1) 1994–1997. Blazon : "Azure, the lesser coat of arms of Sweden , three open crowns placed two and one The shield surmounted a cluster of rays coming down from a mullet, or". The colour of Ing 2 was presented on 26 September 1935 by His Majestyg
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