These are the historic events on which the Gudbrandsdal War Memorial Exhibition is based. The officers, including the expedition leader, Colonel Ramsey, were ransomed while the remaining 15 survivors were conscripted into the Danish army. Sinclair, riding at the head of the column and wearing a plumed helmet, was the first to fall he was shot by Sjelstad, a Norwegian militiaman. George Sinclair was ambushed by Norwegian militia along with 300 of his men while marching through Norway to join the army of the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus. The Battle of Kringen on the 26th of August 1612, involved an ambush by Norwegian peasant militia of Scottish mercenary soldiers who were on their way to enlist in the Swedish army for the Kalmar War. Gudbrandsdalen 1940 was the first ground battle between German and British forces in WW2.

During this bitter fight between German and British troops, some 70 buildings were burned to the ground and among them was the church in Kvam.

On the 25th and 26th of April, Kvam in Gudbrandsdalen became the centre of one of the most serious battles in southern Norway. The german army reached Gudbrandsdalen 21st of April 1940 with the battle of Tretten and Gausdal. We were at war, and the battle to avoid invasion lasted for two months. On the 9th of April 1940, German troops landed in Norway.

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