Harald Hjalmarson

Harald Hjalmarson
Harald Hjalmarson in 1919
Born	(1868-07-14)14 July 1868 Stockholm, Sweden-Norway
Died	16 December 1919(1919-12-16) (aged 51) Uppsala, Sweden
Cause of death	Suicide by gunshot
Allegiance	Sweden-Norway  Sweden Qajar Iran Finland
Branch	Swedish Army Iranian Gendarmerie Finnish Army
Years of service	1889–1919
Rank	Lieutenant Colonel (Sweden) General (Persia) Major General (Finland)
Commands held	Chief of the Persian Gendarmerie (1911–15) Chief of the Swedish Brigade (1918)
Battles/wars	Finnish Civil War Persian campaign (World War I)

Harald Ossian Hjalmarson (14 July 1868 – 15 December 1919)^[1] was a Swedish soldier who volunteered for the Finnish Civil War in 1918 on the white army. He served as the commander of Hjalmarson's group, the Crenatorial Division, which belonged to the Western Army. At the Finnish White Headquarters, his actions during the war were unsatisfactory and he was not popular among the ranks. Hjalmarson received the rank of Major General in the Finnish Army, but in the Swedish Army he was only a lieutenant colonel.