'Practice makes perfect'
Heavy machine gun crew readying their 'hardware' for action.
North Sea, early May 1940

Theatre of Operation - NARVIK

Approaching the coast of Norway

Fjords of Norway
Tromsofjord, May 4, 1940

Destroyer X 112 patrolling the fjords of Northern Norway
Early May 1940

Troop carrier reaching the port of destination
Harstad Harbour, May 7, 1940

Disembarkation Alert aboard a troop carrier
Harstad, May 7, 1940

'On Delivery'
A small and very busy seaplane used for delivering mail and occasional passengers to Allied ships scaterred throughout the Theatre of Operation.

Narvik burning following a Luftwaffe air raid
A view from the ruins of Ankenes.
May 29, 1940

Smoldering ruins of Narvik after the Luftwaffe air raid
May 30, 1940

Narvik's business district after the Luftwaffe air raid
May 30, 1940

The Campaign is over
Allied soldiers and seamen aboard MS Sobieski - Polish luxury transatlantic liner turned troop carrier.
North Sea, early June 1940

Those, left behind...
Makeshift common grave of six Polish soldiers killed in action.
Their names and dates of birth altered to protect their families in the Nazi-Soviet occupied Poland from retribution.
Narvik, early June 1940

Independent Highland Rifle Brigade rushing to the Nazi-French frontline in Brittany
Dol de Bretagne, Jun. 17, 1940

Independent Highland Rifle Brigade's Standard Decoration ceremony - Order of Virtuti Militari
Douglas Park (Scotland), Jul. 21, 1940

Independent Highland Rifle Brigade's Soldiers Decoration ceremony -
Cross of Valour
Douglas Park (Scotland), Jul. 21, 1940

On behalf of Haakon VII, the King of Norway, Gen. Carl G. Fleischer thanks the soldiers of the Polish Independent Highland Rifle Brigade for their efforts during the Norwegian Campaign
Tentsmuir (Scotland), Dec. 8, 1940

Order of VIRTUTI MILITARI

CROSS OF VALOUR

LEGION D'HONNEUR
First issued to a non-French participant in the Norwegian Campaign.
Earned by 2Lt. Bohdan Radkiewicz for saving Foreign Legion platoon from a German minefield ambush in the Bjerkvivk area.
May 13, 1940

DELTAGERMEDALJEN
Participation Medal - 2Lt. Karol Wierzbicki

DELTAGERMEDALJEN
Participation Medal - 2Lt. Karol Wierzbicki

Independent Highland Rifle Brigade commemorative badge
- 2Lt. Karol Wierzbicki

II Battalion, Independent Highland Rifle Brigade commemorative badge
Scotland, late 1940

The war is lost for you already... Jerry...
German paratrooper's (Luftwaffe Beobachter's?) wristwatch. German POWs, taken by the Brigade, were stripped of all equipment that could 'infect' their minds with 'unhealthy' ideas (like escaping to Sweden). Following the Allies' withdrawal from Norway items, like this wristwatch, were on a Polish-organized display for the public - to keep the British morale high.
The German POWs "lived happily ever after" in POW camps in Great Britain and Canada - most likely, the capture saved their lives.

Highland Rifle Battalion Inspection ceremony - Gen. Carl G. Fleischer and Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski
Tentsmuir (Scotland),
Dec. 8, 1940

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