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Name: FRISELL, E. Hjalmar
Birth Date: 27 Aug 1880 Stavnas, Sweden
Death Date: 27 May 1967 Stockholm
First Date: 1925
Area: Chania Bridge
Book Reference: Red 25, Hut
General Information:
?Gazette 1 Jan 1921 Col. C. H. Frisell, Eldama Ravine, Game Licence
Wikipedia: Swedish military officer and sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. During the 1918 Finnish Civil War he was the commander of the voluntary Swedish Brigade.Frisell was born in Stavnäs, Värmland County. His father was the owner of the Stömne bruk ironworks. Frisell served as an artillery officer in Uppsala but retired in 1910. In 1918, he was recruited as the commander of the Swedish Brigade, a voluntary brigade fighting with the Whites in the Finnish Civil War. Frisell took part in the Battle of Tampere in the March–April 1918. After the Finnish Civil War, Frisell lived 10 years in Kenya where he assisted the British Army in railway construction. Frisell published two biographies of his years in Africa. Hjalmar Frisell died in Stockholm in 1967.In 1912 Frisell was part of the Swedish team which finished fourth in the team clay pigeons event. In the individual trap competition he finished 29th and in the 100 metre running deer, double shots event he finished twelfth.