Gustaf Jacob af Dalström was a Swedish military officer and civil servant. He faught during the Finnish War and the

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later in 1849 he bcame the governor of

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Biography

Gustaf Jacob af Dalström was the son of the parish priest Erik Dahlström and his wife Christina Julin and married in 1816 to Anna Christina Hållander. He was the father of the military commander Oskar af Dalström.

Military career

Dalström became an ensign in the Upplands Land Guard in 1808, he participated with distinction in the Finnish War and became a lieutenant after the

Battle of Lemo The Battle of Lemo was fought during the Finnish War between Sweden and Russia on 19–20 June 1808 (Julian calendar 7–8 June). On 19 June, about 2,500 Swedes landed at Lemo (Finnish:''Lemu'') in Kaarina in Southwest Finland, aided by the Swed ...

on 19 August 1808. In 1813 he was appointed captain of the Älvsborg Regiment and in 1818 became a major in the General Staff colonel in 1831 and promoted to major general in 1848. In the

Dalström participated as chief of staff in the 4th Brigade and was severely wounded in the Combat of Roßlau. In 1833 Dalström was knighted, and from 1821 to 1836, he served as a major at the Military Academy Karlberg and was a commander of the Älvsborg Regiment from 1836 to 1848. In 1848 he became commander of a brigade of the Swedish observation corps on Funen and in September of the same year the highest commander of the Swedish troops remaining in Denmark. In 1849, Dalström became governor and military commander on

and in 1853–1854 was the highest commander of the troops withdrawn to the protection of neutrality. In 1858 he was dismissed.

Awards

* För tapperhet i fält, September 29, 1813 (Promoted to Commander on October 14, 1844 and granted Grand Cross on December 18, 1854)adelsvapen.com, Tab 1
/ref> * Order of the Sword, January 28, 1816 * Hederssabel, 1826 *

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Foreign Awards

*Denmark:

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dalström, Gustaf Jacob af 1785 births 1867 deaths Governors of Gotland County Swedish Army major generals Swedish nobility 19th-century Swedish politicians