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Jonas Wærn
Carl Jonas Wærn (23July 1915 – 6November 2003) was a Swedish military officer who led Swedish, Irish, and Indian peacekeeping troops in the Congo Crisis. He also commanded Swedish forces on Cyprus in 1964. Later, he served as adjutant to Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden.
==Career==
Wærn was born in Spånga, Sweden and was the son of lawyer Olof Wærn and the journalist Gerd Ribbing (née Rehn). He passed his ''studentexamen'' in 1934 and the reserve officer's exam in 1936 and officer's exam in 1940. Wærn became an officer at Värmland Regiment (I 2) in 1941. During World War II he served as commander of a jäger platoon at the Norway–Sweden border. He attended Krigshögskolan in 1947 and was deputy military attaché in Copenhagen in 1948 and was second teacher at the Infantry Combat School the same year. Wærn attended the School of Infantry in Warminster, England in 1950 and served at Värmland Regiment (I 2) in 1951.〔 Wærn served at the Army Staff in 1955 and at Västerbotten Regiment (I 20) in 1956 and became major the same year. He was first teacher at Infantry Combat School in 1957 and the same year he was appointed adjutant to Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden.
He was a colonel and commander of the twelfth and fourteenth Swedish UN battalion in Congo from 1961 to 1962. At the same time, he was brigade commander of the Swedish, Indian and Irish troops in southern Katanga, which was part of the United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC) from June 1961 to May 1962. Wærn was the section chief of the IV Military Commanding Staff in 1962 and was commander of the Swedish UN Battalion in Cyprus in 1964, part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus. He was infantry commander of the Stockholm Coastal Artillery Defense (''Stockholms kustartilleriförsvar'') in 1966.〔
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