The Swedish Army Ordnance Corps ( sv, Fälttygkåren, Ftk) was an

administrative corps Corps (; plural ''corps'' ; from French , from the Latin "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization. A military innovation by Napoleon I, the formation was first named as such in 1805. The size of a corps varies great ...

of the

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established in 1937 (its first instruction on 18 June 1937). The majority of the active officers and some civilian personnel served in the Ordnance Department of the Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration and its workshops.

History

The corps was established on 1 July 1937 through a merger of the artillery factories and the staff of the Ordnance Depot (''Tyganstalten'') with ''Fortifikationen'' and the Swedish Army Service Troops' ordnance services as well as with the military units' ordnance officers and ordnance non-commissioned officers. The new administrative corps was named the Swedish Army Ordnance Corps (''Fälttygkåren'') and with the Master-General of the Ordnance as its head. The Master-General of the Ordnance had been the head of the Artillery Department of the Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration, whose artillery staff officers and clerks also belonged to the corps. This corps thus consisted of both officers, non-commissioned officers and civilians. The military unit's weapons artisans remained outside the corps. In 1973, the Swedish Army Ordnance Corps was amalgamated with the Quartermaster Corps of the Swedish Armed Forces into the Commissary Corps of the Swedish Armed Forces.

References

{{Reflist Military administrative corps of Sweden Corps of the Swedish Army Military units and formations established in 1937 Military units and formations disestablished in 1973