AWARDS FOR NORWEGIANS
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDALS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. March G. Three Norwegian sailors, awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, were decorated by the King on Thursday when His Majesty visited the Rosyth dockyard. The King held a small investiture in the dockyard cinema. Seven British naval ratings were also decorated and crews of Norwegian. Polish and British warships watched the King pin medals on the Norwegians and talk with them. The King spent nearly three hours in Rosyth dockyard, where he went aboard two British ships. He also visited minesweepers and inspected minesweepers and inspected Norwegian and Belgian sailors. Earlier in the day the King and Queen visited Edinburgh. Their Majesties inspected factories where the Queen christened a catapult used for launching aeroplanes from warships. She pressed a button and said: “I christen this catapult, and may it successfully launch its planes and pilots, providing wide range eyes for the mother ship.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1941, Page 5
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153AWARDS FOR NORWEGIANS Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1941, Page 5
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