Swedish Army Ordnance Corps

The Swedish Army Ordnance Corps^[1] (Swedish: Fälttygkåren, Ftk) was an administrative corps of the Swedish Army established in 1937 (its first instruction on 18 June 1937^[2]). The majority of the active officers and some civilian personnel served in the Ordnance Department of the Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration and its workshops.

Insignia of the Swedish Army Ordnance Corps.

History

The corps was established on 1 July 1937 through a merger of the artillery factories and the staff of the Ordnance Depot (Tyganstalten) with Fortifikationen and the Swedish Army Service Troops' ordnance services as well as with the military units' ordnance officers and ordnance non-commissioned officers. The new administrative corps was named the Swedish Army Ordnance Corps (Fälttygkåren) and with the Master-General of the Ordnance as its head. The Master-General of the Ordnance had been the head of the Artillery Department of the Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration, whose artillery staff officers and clerks also belonged to the corps. This corps thus consisted of both officers, non-commissioned officers and civilians. The military unit's weapons artisans remained outside the corps.^[3]

In 1973, the Swedish Army Ordnance Corps was amalgamated with the Quartermaster Corps of the Swedish Armed Forces into the Commissary Corps of the Swedish Armed Forces.^[4]

References

1. Gullberg, Ingvar E. (1977). Svensk-engelsk fackordbok för näringsliv, förvaltning, undervisning och forskning [A Swedish-English dictionary of technical terms used in business, industry, administration, education and research] (in Swedish) (2nd ed.). Stockholm: Norstedt. p. 134. ISBN 91-1-775052-0. SELIBR 8345587.
2. Sveriges statskalender för skottåret 1940 (in Swedish). Uppsala: Fritzes offentliga publikationer. 1940. p. 329.
3. Bertilsson, Sven (1995). Arméns tekniska officerare: en kort historik (PDF) (in Swedish). [Uppsala]: [S. Bertilsson]. p. 15. SELIBR 2116509.
4. "Försvarets intendenturkår (1966 – 1973)" [Quartermaster Corps of the Swedish Armed Forces (1966 – 1973)] (in Swedish). National Archives of Sweden. Retrieved 7 September 2018.