page_title: Boden-Karlsborg Artillery Regiment
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Boden-Karlsborg Artillery Regiment / History
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Kungl. Boden-Karlsborgs artilleriregemente med manskap framför framför slutvärnet vid Karlsborgs fästning 1916.
context_page_description: Boden-Karlsborg Artillery Regiment, designation A 8, was a Swedish Army artillery unit which operated between 1893 and 1919. The unit was based in Boden Garrison in Boden, Sweden.
context_section_description: The corps was raised on 10 October 1893 by the 1st and 2nd Fortress Company being separated from the 1st Göta Artillery Regiment and formed an independent unit. In 1882, the Karlsborg Fortress was added to the 1st Fortress Company from the Varberg Fortress, after Varberg Fortress expired in 1830 from the Swedish war organization. The 1st Fortress Company was formed in 1811 from the rubble from the Finnish Artillery Regiment, which had been incorporated into the First Göta Artillery Regiment in connection with the loss of Finland in 1809. In 1882, the Karlsborg Fortress was added to the 2nd Fortress Company from the Karlsten Fortress, after Karlsten Fortress expired in 1882 from the Swedish war organization.
  Through the 1901 Defense Reform, it was decided that Karlsborg Artillery Corps from 1 January 1902 would be organized as Boden-Karlsborg Artillery Regiment. The regiment was organized in two battalions, the 1st Battalion in Karlsborg and 2nd Battalion in Boden. In 1914, all order numbers within the Swedish Army were adjusted. For Boden-Karlsborg Artillery Regiment, this meant that the regiment was assigned the designation A 8. The adjustment of the designation made it possible to distinguish the regiments between the service branches and from their possible reserve and duplication regiments.
  During the late autumn of 1919, the regiment was divided into two independent units; Bodens Artillery Regiment (A 8) and Karlsborg Artillery Corps (A 10). From 10 September 1919, only the battalion in Karlsborg remained, and on 31 December 1919 the regiment was disbanded. On 1 January 1920, the battalion in Karlsborg formed Karlsborg Artillery Corps.
caption: Men from the Boden-Karlsborg Artillery Regiment at Karlsborg Fortress in 1919.
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