8 April  – 10 June 1940 

Land forces

Mauriceforce

British 'Mauriceforce' troops pick through the ruins of Namsos after a German air raid, April 1940.

Imperial War Museums (iwm.org.uk)

Sickleforce

French, British and Norwegian soldiers aboard a Royal Navy warship, 8 May 1940.

Bundesarchive

Rupertforce

French alpine troops with their St Bernard dogs on a ship bound for Norway, April 1940.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/

• Polish Independent Highland Brigade – Commanded by General Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko
• 1st Demi-Brigade
• 1 Battalion
• 2 Battalion
• 2nd Demi-Brigade
• 3 Battalion
• 4 Battalion
• Troop, 3rd The King's Own Hussars (personnel only, no tanks)
• 203 (Cumberland) Field Battery from 51st (Westmorland and Cumberland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
• French 342me Independent Tank Company
• French 2me Independent Colonial Artillery Group
• British Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5 Independent Companies ("Scissorsforce") commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Colin Gubbins, landed Mosjøen, Mo i Rana and Bodø 8/9 May.
• British No. 2 Independent Company commanded by Major Hugh Stockwell, landed at Bodø 15 May.

French soldiers at Narvik, 1940. French soldiers fought alongside British and Polish troops during the Norwegian Campaign.

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North Western Expeditionary Force

• 51st (London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (23 x 3.7-inch mobile AA guns, based at Harstad, Skaanland, and some attached to Bodo Force)
• 82nd (Essex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (24 x 3.7-inch mobile AA guns)
• 156th (Essex) HAA Bty in Bardufoss
• 193rd (Essex) HAA Bty in Tromsø and Sorreisa
• 55th (Devon) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (36 x 40mm Bofors guns, detachments in Harstad, Skaaland, Bardufoss, and Bodo force)
• 167th Light Anti-Aircraft Bty from 56th (East Lancashire) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, (10 x 40mm Bofors guns in Tromsø and Sorreisa)
• 3rd LAA Bty (10 x 40mm Bofors guns in Bardufoss and French force)
• 229 and 230 Field Companies, Royal Engineers
• Detachment 231 Field Park Company, Royal Engineers

Officers and men of the Independent Podhalan Rifles Brigade decorated by King Haakon VII of Norway with the War Cross with Sword (the highest ranking Norwegian gallantry decoration) for gallantry during the Narvik Campaign.

Among them is Corporal Jan Lasowski (second from the right) who lost his sight during the Battle of Narvik. On his right is Lieutenant Colonel Wacław Kobyliński, the CO of the 1st Battalion of the Brigade during the Campaign. Two soldiers on the left are very likely Private Wasyl Cykwas (second from the left ?) and Officer Cadet Leon Słupieński. The Lieutenant on the far right is either Brunon Utnicki or Kazimierz Kędzierski.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/

Naval forces

Royal Navy

• 4 battleships – HMS Resolution, Rodney, Valiant and Warspite
• 2 battlecruisers – HMS Renown and Repulse
• 3 aircraft carriers – HMS Ark Royal, Furious and Glorious (sunk 8 June)
• 5 heavy cruisers – HMS Berwick, Devonshire, Effingham (grounded 17 May, lost), Suffolk (beached 17 April) and York
• 5 light cruisers – HMS Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, and Southampton
• 5 light cruisers – HMS Arethusa, Aurora, Enterprise, Galatea and Penelope (grounded 11 April, damaged)
• 6 anti-aircraft cruisers – HMS Cairo (damaged 28 May), Calcutta, Carlisle, Coventry, Curacoa (damaged 24 April) and Curlew (sunk 26 May)
• 7 Tribal-class destroyers – HMS Afridi (sunk 3 May), Bedouin, Cossack, Eskimo, Gurkha (sunk 9 April), Punjabi and Zulu
• 14 destroyers – HMS Acasta (sunk 8 June), Ardent (sunk 8 June), Forester, Foxhound, Glowworm (sunk 8 April), Hardy (sunk 10 April), Havock, Hero, Hostile, Hotspur, Hunter (sunk 10 April), Icarus, Kimberley, Wolverine
• 4 sloops – HMS Auckland (damaged 20 April), Bittern (sunk 30 April), Black Swan, Flamingo, Fleetwood, Stork,
• 17 submarines – including HMS Sterlet (sunk c. 18 April), Tarpon (sunk 10 April), Thistle (sunk 10 April), Seal (captured 5 May)
• Various minesweepers

The British battleship HMS Rodney which served during the Norwegian Campaign, helping to safeguard troop convoys undertaking the Allied evacuation .

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French Navy

• 2 cruisers – Émile Bertin and Montcalm
• 4 auxiliary cruisers – El Djezaïr, El Mansour, El Kantara, Ville d'Oran
• 9 destroyers – Bison (sunk 3 May), Tartu, Maillé Brézé, Chevalier Paul, Boulonnais, Milan, Épervier, Brestois, Foudroyant
• 17 transport ships – Ville d'Alger, Djenné, Flandre, Président Doumer, Chenonceaux, Mexique, Colombie, Amiénois, Saumur, Cap Blanc, Château Pavie, Saint Firmin, Albert Leborgne, Paul Émile Javary, Saint Clair, Vulcain, Enseigne Maurice Préchac
• 1 submarine – Rubis

Polish Navy in exile

• 3 destroyers – ORP Błyskawica, Burza, Grom (sunk 4 May)
• 1 submarine – ORP Orzeł (sunk 8 June)
• 3 troopships – Chrobry (damaged later scuttled 16 May), Sobieski, Batory

The French light cruiser Émile Bertin, the flagship of Group Z, the French squadron supporting the Allied Norwegian campaign.

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Air forces

Royal Air Force (deployed to Norway)

• 263 Squadron RAF – Gloster Gladiator fighter aircraft
• 46 Squadron RAF – Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft

Hurricane Mk I PO-M is sheltered at Bardufoss where No 46 Squadron RAF assembled to begin operation on 26 May 1940.

At 08.30hrs, S/L Kenneth BB "Bing" Cross took off from HMS Glorious in PO-X to assemble at the Norwegian airfield. During patrols over the land and naval forces at Narvik, the pilots accounted for at least 14 enemy aircraft, despite poor runways and primitive servicing and repair facilities.

https://www.royalmarineshistory.com/