Commonwealth War Graves Lillehammer

Troops of the 148th Infantry Brigade advancing through the Gudbrandsdal to support the Norwegian forces at Lillehammer in April 1940, were forced back in this region by the Germans who had entered it from the south. Lillehammer Northern Civil Cemetery contains a Commonwealth war graves plot of 35 burials, most of them from this period. The soldiers belonged mainly to the 8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters and the 1/5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. The four airmen were killed in an aircraft of 644 Squadron, which crashed near Stange on Lake Mjosa in April 1945.