On this day, January 14th, 2021, the Swedish Life Guards turn 500 years old as a combat unit. Founded when Gustavus Adolphus hand-picked 16 men from Dalecarlia to act as his bodyguards during the Swedish War of Liberation from the Kalmar Union.
A girl licks ice cream and plays with the tip of the rifle’s bayonet to try and elicit a reaction from a Swedish Royal Guard,
Stockholm, 1970.
Corrected.
A girl licks ice cream and plays with the tip of the rifle’s bayonet to try and elicit a reaction from a Swedish Royal Guard,
Stockholm, 1970.
Corrected.