Bengt Liljestrand

Major General Bengt (T:son) Trygvesson Liljestrand (26 February 1919 – 2 January 2000) was a Swedish Army officer. He served as Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) from 1974 to 1975 and Force Commander of the Second United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF II) from 1975 to 1976.

Early life Liljestrand was born on 26 February 1919 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of hovrättsråd Trygve Liljestrand and Lolly (née Geijer) and brother of lector Greta Renborg (1921–2005). His father later became head of publishing at Norstedts förlag. His mother was the daughter of Major General Gottschalk Geijer. He passed studentexamen at Östra Real in 1937.

Liljestrand was Senior Administrative Officer at the Coordination Department at the Ministry of Defense from 1962 to 1963 and was promoted to colonel in the General Staff Corps in 1964.

Dates of rank

Sweden 1940 – Second lieutenant 19?? – Lieutenant 1952 – Captain 1959 – Major 19?? – Lieutenant colonel 1964 – Colonel 1973 – Major general 1975 – Lieutenant general

Finland 1941 – Lieutenant

Awards and decorations

Honours Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (1963) Vice chairman of the Karolinska förbundet

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