Sten-Eggert Nauclér

Sten-Eggert Vergenhanns Nauclér (24 September 1914 – 5 November 1990) was a Swedish Army officer who served in various conflict areas, in Swedish service, Ethiopian service and as a volunteer. After a few years in the Swedish Army, Nauclér volunteered for service in the Winter War and later in the Continuation War in Finland. He returned to Sweden where he was promoted to captain in 1948 before travelling to Ethiopia to train officers for Emperor Haile Selassie's Imperial Guards. Nauclér was deployed in Korea with the Kagnew Battalion during the Korean War in 1951 and also served as head of the Ethiopian Liaison Section in Tokyo. In 1956 he was deployed in Egypt with the Swedish UN Battalion during the Suez Crisis and later in the Congo where he was commander of the Swedish UN Battalion during the Congo Crisis. Nauclér retired from the military in 1963 and then worked for a mining corporation in Liberia. During the Biafran War he led a Red Cross team with relief efforts.

Early life Nauclér was born on 24 September 1914 in Boden and was the son of lieutenant colonel Carl-Eggert Nauclér and Harriet (née Vasseur). He passed studentexamen in Stockholm in 1936. He was a teacher at the Swedish Infantry Combat School in 1945 and was promoted to captain in 1948. There he became a cadet officer at the Haile Selassie I Cadet School The journey from Djibouti, via Bangkok to Pusan in the American troopship took three weeks. It arrived in the Port of Pusan in the morning 6 May 1951, where the South Korean President Syngman Rhee and representatives of the UN forces in Korea were waiting. After disembarking, they were transported to a training camp about 10 km outside Pusan, where they were placed in tents. and he was sector commander in Katanga in 1962. Back in Sweden again, he was commander of the National Home Guard Combat School from 1957 to 1963 when he retired from military service. From 1963, Nauclér was chief of staff in Yekepa, Liberia for the mining corporation Lamco. In the 1970s, Nauclér worked for the Red Cross in Zambia.

Personal life In 1941 he married Gunn Johansson, the daughter of managing director Carl Johansson and his wife, (née Nilsson). He was the father of Marianne (born 1941), Carl-Eggert (born 1944) and Anders (born 1947). Nauclér was a member of Rotary International.

Swedish Red Cross Merit Badge (Svenska Röda Korsets förtjänsttecken)

Foreign

Ethiopian Memorial Medal of the Korean War

4 x Finnish Memory Cross on the occasion of the Finnish war 1939-45 (Finskt minneskors med anledning av Finlands krig 1939-45) Finnish War Memorial Medal (Finsk krigsminnesmedalj)

Memorial Medal of the Korean War