Life Guard Dragoons (Sweden)

Life Guard Dragoons
Livgardets dragoner
Active1949–2000
Country Sweden
AllegianceSwedish Armed Forces
BranchSwedish Army
TypeCavalry
SizeRegiment
Part ofVII Military District (1949–1966)
Eastern Military District (1966–1984)
Svea Life Guards (1984–1994)
Middle Military District (1994–2000)
Garrison/HQStockholm
ColorsWhite and blue
March"Dragonerna komma" (Ericson)[note 1]
Anniversaries4 December (Battle of Lund)
Battle honoursLützen (1632)
Oldendorf (1633)
Wittstock (1636)
Leipzig (1642)
Warsaw (1656)
Frederiksodde (1657)
March Across the Belts (1658)
Lund (1676)
Landskrona (1677)
Düna (1701)
Kliszów (1702)
Pułtusk (1703)
Holowczyn (1708)
Helsingborg (1710)
Svensksund (1790)
Insignia
Branch insignia
Unit insignia
Cap badge

The Life Guard Dragoons (Swedish: Livgardets dragoner), designated K 1, was a Swedish Army cavalry unit active from 1949 to 2000. The unit was formed as a squadron called the Life Guards Squadron (Livgardesskvadronen) in 1949, as a replacement for the previous K 1, the Life Regiment of Horse (1928–1948). In 1975 the squadron were made into a regiment, titled the Life Guard Dragoons with Stockholm Defence District (Livgardets dragoner med Stockholms försvarsområde K 1/Fo 44), redesignated the Life Guard Dragoons in 1984. The regiment had ceremonial mounted cavalry duties, as well as training recruits and providing part of the garrison in Stockholm. In accordance with that year's Defence Act, the regiment was amalgamated into the Life Guards in 2000, thus combining the infantry and cavalry guard units of the Swedish Army.

  1. ^ Sandberg 2007, p. 29


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