Börje Wallberg

Brigadier Karl Gustaf Börje Wallberg (28 February 1923 in Södertälje[1]– 19 December 2014)[2] was a Swedish military officer and philatelist who was added to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1994.[3]

Börje Wallberg

Wallberg formed Gold medal award-winning collections of Mongolia, classic Korea, North Korea, Cambodia and Laos. He won the Strandell Medal of the Philatelic Society of Sweden and the Personal Medal of King Carl-XVI-Gustaf.

Wallberg pursued a military career in the Swedish Army from 1946 to 1983, a.o. serving as Inspector of the Swedish Army Service Troops from 1974 to 1983. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences in 1976.[4]

References

Sveriges befolkning 1980, CD-ROM, version 1.00 (Sveriges Släktforskarförbund 2004).
Börje Wallberg har avlidit. Sveriges Filatelist-Förbund, 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. Archived here.
Kjellander, Rune: Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademien. Biografisk matrikel med porträttgalleri 1796–1995 (Kungl. Krigsvetenskapsakademien, Stockholm 1996), p. 182.

Military offices
Preceded by Dag Nordenskiöld	Inspector of the Swedish Army Service Troops 1974–1983	Succeeded by Curt Sjöö

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[1] Sveriges befolkning 1980, CD-ROM, version 1.00 (Sveriges Släktforskarförbund 2004).

[2] Börje Wallberg har avlidit. Sveriges Filatelist-Förbund, 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2015.

[3] Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. Archived here.

[4] Kjellander, Rune: Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademien. Biografisk matrikel med porträttgalleri 1796–1995 (Kungl. Krigsvetenskapsakademien, Stockholm 1996), p. 182.