The Swedish Infantry Combat School originated from the Swedish Infantry Gunnery School which was formed in 1878 in Stockholm. Although it was the school's official name, it also came to be called the Shooting School for the Infantry and the Cavalry. On 1 October 1942, the school was reorganized into the Swedish Infantry Combat School. On 1 June 1953 the Swedish Army ABC-Defence School was added as a training school within the Swedish Infantry Combat School. On 1 February 1961, the school was organizationally transferred to Svea Life Guards. On 1 October 1961, the school adopted the name Infanteriets stridsskola, when the school was relocated to Linköping. On 1 April 1963 the Infantry Officer School and the Cavalry Officer School was amalgamated and came to be a part of the course of the Swedish Infantry Combat School. Since the school constituted an independent unit of organization within the Swedish defense, it came on 1 July 1991 to organizationally be part of the Swedish Army's Infantry and Cavalry Center. The Swedish Infantry Combat School was one of three combat arms schools within the Swedish Army's Infantry and Cavalry Center. The other two schools were the Swedish Infantry Officers’ College in Linköping Garrison and the Swedish Infantry and Cavalry Combat School in Umeå Garrison. On 30 June 1995, the three combat arms centers Swedish Army's Infantry and Cavalry Center and the Swedish Army Armoured Center, were dissolved in order to form a joint combat arms center on 1 July 1995; the Swedish Army Brigade Center. Through this reorganization, on 1 July 1995 three new joint army schools were formed, Combat School North, Combat School Middle and Combat School South. There the Swedish Infantry Combat School with the Swedish Infantry Officers’ College formed the Combat School Middle.
Garrisons and training areas
When the Swedish Infantry Gunnery School was organized in 1878, it came to be placed at Rosersberg Palace. At Rosersberg, the school was located until 1961. When the school was relocated temporarily to Linköping Garrison on 19 May 1961, a ceremony was held at Rosersberg, and on 1 July 1961 the area was handed over to the Swedish Civil Defence Board. From 1 September 1961, the school officially operated in Linköping, where it was co-located with the Life Grenadier Regiment and located to barracks 2. On 15 May 1963, parts of the school were moved to Kvarns bruk, where the whole school was located in 1966. The facility in Kvarns bruk was taken over by the Combat School Middle.
Heraldry and traditions
Coat of arms
The coat of the arms of the Swedish Infantry Combat School 1982–1991. Blazon: "Azure, two muskets in saltire between two letters of S, inside an open chaplet of laurels, all or".
