NORWEGIAN SAILORS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 139, 8 March 1941, Page 11

NORWEGIAN SAILORS

Distinguished Service Medals Awarded

(British Official Wireless.) (Received March 7, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, March 6.

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 the 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 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.”

AIR FORCE AWARDS (British Official Wireless.) (Received March 7, 7 p.m.) RUGBY,' March 6. One D. 5.0., a second bar to a D.F.C. and a D.F.C. are awarded in the latest R.A.F. list. One recipient has taken part in 20 operational flights over Eritrea and Abyssinia, in formation flights over mountainous country, finding new targets in spite of the unreliability of maps and adverse weather