Norwegian soldiers at Dieppe?

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

Thank you Lars!

I had a conversation with Lars Gyllenhaal who also had heard about Allan Mann and Dieppe but found no proof, so he did not mention that in his book.

But the questions become more and more. If Allan went to GB as late as 1944, how did he have time to soldier on from private to 2nd Lt in less than a year?

And how did he got the Military Medal. He must then have been a NCO. And did the British award Military Medal to Norwegian NCOs serving in Norway?

Perhaps it is a mixup and that Allan participated at Walcheren?

Myself I have never heard from Allan himself that he was in Dieppe. That is only second hand talk. Allan himself was very reluctant to talk of the war.

But still: Why the second Croix de Guèrre? I guess the French didn´t give such decorations for Norway (except Narvik where he got his first Croix de Guèrre) or Walcheren.

So Allan must have done someting for Britain (Military Medal) and France (the second Croix de Guèrre). But what and when?

Stellan