HEIDAL CHURCHYARD
Gudbrandsdal
Norway
Location Information
Heidal is a village in the Gudbrandsdal in central Norway, north-west of Kvam. From the E6 turn onto the 257 towards Heidal. The brown wooden church is on the right of the road just before the village of Heidal. The grave is to the right of the church from the main entrance.
History Information
During the Second World War, Norway was of strategic importance to the Germans. Their invasion on 9 April 1940 was sudden and widespread and despite Allied intervention, the entire country was under German occupation by early June. Thereafter, Allied activity in Norway was confined to raids and special operations, with the Commonwealth air forces providing support to Norwegian resistance groups until the German capitulation in May 1945. There are no Commonwealth war cemeteries in Norway, those who died there being buried in civil cemeteries and churchyards. Heidal Churchyard contains one Commonwealth burial.
Burial Details
4972578 Private William Fletcher, 8th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), died between 23rd April 1940 and 2nd May 1940, aged 27.
Pictures © Åge Jakobsen
Heidal is a village in the Gudbrandsdal in central Norway, north-west of Kvam. From the E6 turn onto the 257 towards Heidal. The brown wooden church is on the right of the road just before the village of Heidal. The grave is to the right of the church from the main entrance.
History Information
During the Second World War, Norway was of strategic importance to the Germans. Their invasion on 9 April 1940 was sudden and widespread and despite Allied intervention, the entire country was under German occupation by early June. Thereafter, Allied activity in Norway was confined to raids and special operations, with the Commonwealth air forces providing support to Norwegian resistance groups until the German capitulation in May 1945. There are no Commonwealth war cemeteries in Norway, those who died there being buried in civil cemeteries and churchyards. Heidal Churchyard contains one Commonwealth burial.
Burial Details
4972578 Private William Fletcher, 8th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), died between 23rd April 1940 and 2nd May 1940, aged 27.
Pictures © Åge Jakobsen
