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Haakon VII

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Haa·kon VII  (hôkn, -kn) 1872-1957.
King of Norway (1905-1957) who headed the exiled Norwegian government in London during the Nazi occupation of his country (1940-1945).
Haakon VII
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(Biographies / Haakon VII (1872-1957) M, Norwegian, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) 1872-1957, king of Norway (1905-57). During the Nazi occupation of Norway (1940-45) he led Norwegian resistance from England
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Send your captioned old photographs to the address on the letters page with a return address on the back CAPTION(S): On behalf of King Haakon VII of Norway, Liverpool's Norwegian Consul, Mr Johan Vogt, awarded five Liverpudlians with Norway's Cross of Freedom, for wartime services, at the British Council, in Basnett Street, including Mrs I Cooke, secretary of the Anglo-Norwegian Society, in December, 1948.
LOOKING BACK by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
The first pair was issued on 27 November 2003 to commemorate the day in 1905 when King Haakon VII took his oath in the Storting.
Final pair of coins to mark the centennial celebration 1905-2005: the ... by Economic Bulletin
Wal was stationed on the Orkneys during the Second World War and was sent to Norway to help in the rescue of King Haakon VII after the Nazi invasion.
ex-service notes by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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