Wendes Artillery Regiment

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Wendes Artillery Regiment
Wendes artilleriregemente
Wendes artilleriregemente vapen.svg
Active1794–2000
CountryFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Allegiance Swedish Armed Forces
Branch Swedish Army
Type Artillery
Size Regiment
Part of
List
  • 1st Military District (1833–1893)
  • I Army Division (1893–1901)
  • I Army Division (1902–1927)
  • Southern Army Division (1928–1936)
  • I Army Division (1937–1942)
  • I Military District (1942–1966)
  • Milo S (1966–2000)
Garrison/HQ Hässleholm
Motto(s)Nulli secundus ("Second to none")
ColorsBlue and white
March"Siegestrophäen" (Friedemann) [note 1]
Anniversaries6 September [note 2]
4 December [note 3]
Battle honours Großbeeren (1813)
Dennewitz (1813)
Leipzig (1813)
Insignia
Branch insignia Truppslagstecken for artilleriet.jpg
Cap badge Baskertecken for artilleriet AM.088400.jpg
Shoulder sleeve insignia m/1906 AM.012810.jpg
Shoulder sleeve insignia MILI.009816.jpg

The Wendes Artillery Regiment [3] (Swedish : Wendes artilleriregemente), designation A 3, was a Swedish Army artillery regiment that traced its origins back to the 17th century. The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from Scania, where it was garrisoned. The unit was disbanded as a result of the disarmament policies set forward in the Defence Act of 2000.

Contents

History

The regiment has its origins in the Artillery Regiment raised in 1636. That regiment was split into four new regiments in 1794 of which Wendes Artillery Regiment was one. The regiment was given the designation A 3 (3rd Artillery Regiment) in 1830. In 1893 two companies were split off to form 2nd Svea Artillery Regiment and 2nd Göta Artillery Regiment. The regiment was garrisoned in Kristianstad but moved to Norra Åsum in 1953 and to Hässleholm in 1994 before being disbanded in 2000.

Campaigns

Organisation

Heraldry and traditions

Colours, standards and guidons

The standard of Wendes Artillery Regiment was embroidered by hand by mademoiselle Anette Bergner and presented as an honorary standard to the former mounted division of the Royal Wendes Artillery Regiment (A 3) in 1815. It was used as regimental standard by A 3 until 1 July 2000. [4] Blazon: "On white cloth a winged cluster of flashes clasped by a hand under a royal crown proper, wings brown, crown and flash-cluster in yellow. In each corner a slanted open yellow crown. Yellow battle honours (Großbeeren 1813, Leipzig 1813, Dennewitz 1813) on the three lower sides of the standard. Fringe in white and yellow." Today it is presented as the second standard of the Artillery Regiment. [4]

Coat of arms

The coat of the arms of the Wendes Artillery Regiment (A 3) 1977–2000. Blazon: "Gules, the regimental badge, a wyvern or, armed and langued azure. The shield surmounted two gunbarrels of older pattern in saltire or. The gunbarrels may be sable". [5]

Commanding officers

Names, designations and locations

NameTranslationFromTo
Kungl Wendes artilleriregementeRoyal Wendes Artillery Regiment1794-06-231974-12-31
Wendes artilleriregementeWendes Artillery Regiment1975-01-012000-06-30
AvvecklingsorganisationDecommissioning Organisation2000-07-012001-06-30
DesignationFromTo
No. 31830-??-??1914-09-30
A 31914-10-012000-06-30
LocationFromTo
Kristianstad Garrison1794-06-231994-06-30
Stralsund Garrison1794-06-231814-12-31
Hässleholm Garrison1994-07-012000-06-30

See also

Footnotes

  1. The march was established in 1953 by Army Order 33/1953. [1]
  2. 6 September is the anniversary of the Battle of Dennewitz.
  3. 4 December is saint day of Saint Barbara. [2]

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References

Notes

  1. Sandberg 2007, p. 32
  2. Braunstein 2003, pp. 189–191
  3. Gullberg 1977 , p. 1141
  4. 1 2 Braunstein 2004 , pp. 55–56
  5. Braunstein 2006 , p. 32

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