Greve (Swedish: Count) Gilbert Hamilton (1869-1947) was a highly decorated Swedish noble, holding Swedish, Finnish and German military honours. He volunteered and fought as a commander of the Prussian cuirassier regiment "Graf Wrangel" for Germany in World War I and found himself stranded in the Ukraine following the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. With his regiment he fought his way through revolutionary Russia to a hero's welcome in Königsberg in 1919.