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iii. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION Of SWEDEN.
column, 1 field-telegraph detachment, 1 medical service company, 2
artillery and 2 infantry ammunition columns, 4 supply columns, 1 butchers’
and bakers’ company, 4 field hospitals and 1 horse depot. The Cavalry
division: 2 brigades of 2 battalions of 4 squadrons respectively, 1
brigade-division of 3 batteries of horse-artillery, 1 field-telegraph-detachment,
1 medical service detachment, and half an ammunition-column.
Besides this reserve- and depot-units are organized as well as the
general reserve (landstorm).
Barracks of an artillery regiment at Gothenburg.
At the present time (1902) we may estimate the total number of
regular soldiers and trained men bound to serve in the army in time
of war at about 500,000, viz., in the standing army 39,000, the
conscripts’ 1st levy 182,000, and d:o 2nd levy 75,000, and the general
reserve (Landstorm) 204,000. In the first call of the conscripts 17,800
are registered as having served in the permanent cadres.
The infantry is armed with a repeating rifle of the Mauser system
with a calibre of 6-5 mm. The cavalry carries a sword and a carbine
of the above mentioned pattern. The field-artillery’s guns have a calibre
of 8-4 cm; the horse-artillery batteries have 7-s cm quick-firing cannons.
At the present moment quick-firing guns are also being tested for the
field-batteries.
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