Swedes in Allied Forces 1939-45

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

Ivor Thord-Gray was born in Stockholm 1878 as Ivar Thord Hallström.

He made a very strange career. In British service in Bechuanaland 1897, Pondoland 1897, Boer-war 1899-1902, Zululand 1906. Captain in the British Army 1906.

Served in Tonkin 1909, Tripoli 1911, China 1912. Chief of Staff 1st Mexican Army 1913-14.

British Army 1914-17. Major 1914. LtCol and CO 11th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers 1915-16, 25th London Regt 1916-17, Brigade Cdr in GB-US Div "Theodore Roosevelt" 1917.

Department of Information, Canadian Expeditionary Force (to Russia?) 1918. MjGen in (White) Russian Koltjak Army 1919.

It is said that he was a General in the US forces during WW 2. I wonder about that because he was more than 60 years old by then.

Who knows of:

1) Canadian forces in Russia 1918?
2) Thord-Gray in US service?
3) Theodore Roosevelt Brigade WW 1?

Photo: As Russian Major-General (aged 41).

On the photo written in Swedish "To Gunnar from Thord 1920". Gunnar Hallström (1875-1943) was an artist and elder brother of Thord.