This article is about the Swedish volunteers in Persia. For other uses, see Persian campaign (World War I).
Swedish volunteers in Persia
Part of the Persian campaign
Date
1911–1916
Location
Persia
Result
Indecisive, eventually a Persian victory
Belligerents
Sweden[1] (1911–1916) Persia Swedish volunteers (1916–1921)
Insurgents
United Kingdom (1914–1918)
Russia (1914–1917)
Strength
~60[2] ?
Several clans and villages
51,000[3] 90,000[4]
Casualties and losses
4-12, Several injured[2] ?
Unknown
3,000 (In the wider Persian theatre of World War I) ?
The Swedish volunteers in Persia were a small group of military officers deployed 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.
^ abCite 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.
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Sweden[1] (1911–1916) 
Persia 
Russia (1914–1917)
51,000[3]