| Swedish volunteers in Persia | ||||||||
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| Part of the Persian campaign | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
 Sweden[1] (1911–1916)  Persia Swedish volunteers (1916–1921) | Insurgents |
 Russia (1914–1917) | ||||||
| Strength | ||||||||
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~60[2] ? | Several clans and villages |
 51,000[3] 90,000[4] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||
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4–12, Several injured[2] Unknown | Unknown |
3,000 (In the wider Persian theatre of World War I) Unknown | ||||||
The Swedish volunteers in Persia were a small group of military officers active in Persia between 1911 and 1916. The goal was to quell regional uprisings and modernize the Persian army, but as a result of pressure from Russia and the United Kingdom, Sweden decided to call back most of their officers during World War I.
- ^ Ericson Wolke, Lars (4 June 2021). "Svenskar stred i persiska gendarmeriet" [Swedes fought in the Persian gendarmerie]. Populär historia (in Swedish) (2). Lund: Historiska media. SELIBR 8264634.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
Karlsson (2006)was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire" (London: HMSO, 1920). Page 777. 2,050 British Army and 49,198 British Indian Army personnel sent to the "Persian Gulf Theatre" from India in total.
- ^ Volkov, Denis V. (2022). "Bringing democracy into Iran: a Russian project for the separation of Azerbaijan". Middle Eastern Studies. 58 (6): 4. doi:10.1080/00263206.2022.2029423. S2CID 246923610.
The Russian military force, occupying not only Azerbaijan but the entire north and north-east of Iran, eventually amounted to almost twenty thousand by the outbreak of the First World War. After the opening of the so-called Persidskii front [the Persian front], which became the south flank of the First World War theatre, this number gradually grew to eighty or ninety thousand.