NORWAY Godager, Leonard

John Robertson

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  • SURNAME
Godager
  • FORENAME
Leonard
  • UNIT
Resistance
  • RANK
Civilian
  • NUMBER
  • DATE OF DEATH
30th April 1942
  • AGE
25
  • GRAVESITE
Furnes Church Memorial,Norway
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 1.11.1916 Vang,Hedmark,Norway
served Norway 1940 (Sgt)
policeman autumn 1940
helped political prisoners escape from Ullevaal hospital
arrested 23.2.1942 near Aalesund (trying to escape to England)
Vollan + Grini prisons
shot Trandum Woods,Norway
 

DATE OF DEATH:

30-Apr-1942
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  • SURNAME
Godager
  • FORENAME
Leonard
  • UNIT
Resistance
  • RANK
Civilian
  • NUMBER
  • DATE OF DEATH
30th April 1942
  • AGE
25
  • GRAVESITE
Furnes Church Memorial,Norway
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 1.11.1916 Vang,Hedmark,Norway
served Norway 1940 (Sgt)
policeman autumn 1940
helped political prisoners escape from Ullevaal hospital
arrested 23.2.1942 near Aalesund (trying to escape to England)
Vollan + Grini prisons
shot Trandum Woods,Norway
Thank you for informing about Leonard Godager. His memory is still honored by Veteran Guardsmen from HM Royal Guard on May 8th. every year at the memorial in Trandum Woods. At the same time we also honour another guardsman, Andreas Steinsland taken as a prisoner of war when trying to escape to GBR in 1942. They were both civilians, but as a Guardsman it goes; "Once a Guardman - allways a Guardsman".
Of course we also honour all the other prisoners executed in Trandum Woods, prisoners from GBR, Soviet Union and Norway
Best regards
Hans-Erik Grimsrud, Major (r)
Chair, Oslo og Akershus Guardsmens Association. Branch unit of Norwegian Guardsmens Association
 
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