The pilot, the missionaries, the officers, the doctors, and the coach
Bengt Nordenskiöld (left) and Carl Gustaf von Rosen — Wikimedia Commons, PD-Sweden
Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen
19 August 1909, Helgesta — 13 July 1977, Gode, Ethiopia
Aviator · Founder of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force · Humanitarian
The first three SEM missionaries, Massawa 1866
Lange, Kjellberg & Carlsson
Arrived Massawa, spring 1866
The first Swedish missionaries
Portrait — image to be added
Karl Cederqvist
1854 – 1919
First Swedish missionary in Addis Ababa
Onesimos Nesib — Wikimedia Commons (PD)
Onesimos Nesib
c. 1856 – 21 June 1931
Oromo Bible translator, raised by the Swedish Mission
Portrait — image to be added
Dr. Karl Winqvist
d. 6 December 1909
Doctor & Tigrinya Bible translator
Portrait — image to be added
Richard Sundström
1869 – 1919
Missionary, physician & Tigre linguist
Portrait — image to be added
Anders Svensson
1849 – 1928
Missionary in Eritrea
Portrait — image to be added
August Andersson
1868 – 1952
Missionary pastor in Eritrea
Portrait — image to be added
Jonas Iwarson
1876 – 1947
Priest & missionary
Portrait — image to be added
Johannes Kolmodin
22 February 1884 – 9 October 1933
Orientalist & political advisor to Haile Selassie
Major-General Eric Virgin — Wikimedia Commons, PD-Sweden
Major-General Eric Virgin
18 May 1876 – 12 May 1950
Military & aviation advisor to Haile Selassie
Viking Tamm — Wikimedia Commons, PD-Sweden
Captain Viking Tamm
1896 – 1975
Reformer of the Ethiopian Army
Portrait — image to be added
Sten-Eggert Nauclér
24 September 1914 – 5 November 1990
Cadet officer, Haile Selassie I Cadet School
Portrait — image to be added
Onni Niskanen
1910 – 1984
Coach of Abebe Bikila and Mamo Wolde
Portrait — image to be added
Dr. Fride Hylander
d. after 1936
Red Cross surgeon; co-leader of the Abessinienambulansen
Portrait — image to be added
Dr. Gunnar Agge
d. after 1936
Co-leader of the Swedish Red Cross Ambulance
Portrait — image to be added
Dr. Erik B:son Norup
Dates being researched
Surgeon, Swedish Red Cross Ambulance
Portrait — image to be added
Gunnar Lundström
d. 1936 (of wounds)
Swedish medical orderly — fell in service
More names will be added — including Rickard Nilsson, Bengt Horn, Vilhelm av Sillén, and the lieutenants Nils Bouveng, Arne Thorburn, Gustaf Heüman and Anders Nyblom who served with the Tamm–Virgin military mission. Photographs from family archives and SEM archives are welcome.