ØVERDALEN CHURCHYARD
Rauma
Norway
Location Information
Overdalen is in the valley of the Romsdal, in central Norway, 37 kilometres south of Andalsnes.
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. Overdalen Churchyard contains one Commonwealth burial.
Burial Details
4391523 Private John Robert Hammond, 1st Bn. Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) died 1st May 1940.
Cemetery picture © Åge Jakobsen
Overdalen is in the valley of the Romsdal, in central Norway, 37 kilometres south of Andalsnes.
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. Overdalen Churchyard contains one Commonwealth burial.
Burial Details
4391523 Private John Robert Hammond, 1st Bn. Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) died 1st May 1940.
Cemetery picture © Åge Jakobsen
