Marcus Grundberg as a first lieutenant and company commander in the Prussian Infantry Regiment "von der Goltz" in Flanders. The only Swedish career officer during WWI to be KIA in German service, he was killed 13 April 1918 by machine-gun fire during an infantry assault. He is buried in a German military cemetery by Armentieres, France, and commemorated in the chapel of Karlberg castle, Stockholm. (Torsten Grundberg)

Members of the Swedish Volunteer Corps within the French Foreign Legion. Nils Persson (with the machine gun), Edgard Meissner, Elow Nilson, Olof Bremer, and Ivan Lönnberg. (Elow Nilson)

There are no photographs of Frans Wahlberg in Spanish uniform but here he is shown as a Rottenführer of the Waffen-SS in 1943 in the "Westland" regiment. (Frans Wahlberg)

The Swede who advanced furthest in the Republican "Special Service" was Karl Ernstedt (left). His commander Richard Stahlmann (originally Arthur Illner) (right), was later one of the founders of the East German intelligence service. Stahlmann was a direct subordinate to the Chief of the NKVD in Spain. Ernstedt had previously been a sergeant with the Svea Life Guards. (Militärverlag der DDR)

Assar Tano from northernmost Sweden fought in the French Foreign Legion against General Dietl's troops at Narvik in 1940. The next time he was in combat was against the US Army in Algeria! Briefly a prisoner of war, he returned to combat with the Allies against Rommel's Afrika Korps. This photo of him in Legion parade uniform was probably taken in 1945. (Allan Mann)

A soldier from the heavy company of SFB with a German stick grenade. On the Swedish-made steel helmet the letters "TK" can be seen, painted in yellow within a shield, signifying the heavy company. (Arne Pettersson)

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