The Göta Signal Corps ( sv, Göta signalkår), designations S 1 Sk and S 2, was a

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unit, one of the few new formations raised in the 20th century. It was disbanded in 1997. The unit was garrisoned in

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History

The unit has its origins in a 1944 detached

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, ''Signalregementets kompani i Skövde'', of Signal Regiment that was garrisoned in

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. The company gained the designation S 1 Sk (1st Signal Regiment, Skövde detachment), and was in 1958 upgraded to a separate

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, and gained the designation S 2. The battalion was transferred to

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in 1961 and was renamed Göta Signal Regiment in 1962 when it was upgraded to regimental size. The Swedish Army Paratroop School was attached to the regiment from 1961 until the regiment was disbanded in 1984. However one battalion of the regiment was kept as part of

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as Göta Signal Battalion until it was disbanded in 1997.

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On 25 August 1962, His Majesty the King

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presented a colour to the then Göta Signal Regiment. When

Karlsborg Anti-Aircraft Regiment Karlsborg Anti-Aircraft Regiment ( sv, Karlsborgs luftvärnsregemente), also Lv 1, was a Swedish Army anti-aircraft unit that was active in various forms between 1937–1961. The unit was based in Karlsborg. History Karlsborg Anti-Aircraft Regi ...

(Lv 1) was disbanded on 31 March 1961, its colour was transferred to Göta Signal Regiment, which carried it on certain occasions. On 1 July 1984, Göta Signal Regiment was amalgamated as a training battalion into the

(K 3). The colour was then transferred to the Anti-Aircraft Combat School (''Luftvärnsskjutskolan'', LvSS) on 8 October 1984. Since 1 July 2000, the memory of Karlsborg Anti-Aircraft Regiment is maintained by the Air Defence Regiment (Lv 6). On 30 April 1996, Supreme Commander, general

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presented a new colour to Göta Signal Battalion at the Artillery Yard in Stockholm. It was drawn by Kristina Holmgård-Åkerberg and embroidered by machine in insertion technique by the company Libraria. It was used as battalion colour by S 2 until 1 January 1998.

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: "On green cloth in the centre a circular shield showing the coat of arms of the unit; azure, three wavy white bends sinister charged with a crowned double-tailed yellow lion rampant, armed and langued gules. The shield ensigned with a royal crown proper. In the first corner a mullet with a cluster of rays and in the second corner the insignia of the

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; an erect sword entwined with a bolt, all yellow".

Coat of arms

The coat of the arms of the Göta Signal Regiment (S 2) 1977–1994 and the Göta Signal Battalion (K 3/S 2) 1994–1997.

: "Azure, the regimental badge, a double-tailed lion rampant or armed and langued gules. The shield surmounted a cluster of bolts, or".

Commanding officers

*1958–1960: Nils Fredrik Schale *1960–1970: Tage Ingemar Bratt *1970–1976: Karl Edvin Eriksson *1976–1980: Håkan Hallgren *1980–1982: Åke Bertil Gunnar Lövdahl *1982–1984: Kurt Olofsson *1984–1987: Per Granath *1987–1989: Nils Göran Anders Nilsson *1989–1991: Bengt-Åke Gelin *1991–1993: Christer Birger Levin *1993–1995: Christer Carl Einar Ejnarsson *1995–1997: Per Jörgen Ivhammar

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