THE bravery of one of the region's regiments during the Second World War has been commemorated with a special museum display.

A new window display at the Green Howards Regimental Museum, in Richmond, North Yorkshire, marks the regiment's action against the German invasion of Norway in April and May 1940.

The Green Howards helped defend the area around Otta, in Nord Fron Kommune, and the Norwegian people have always remembered the action there.

Since 1985, the town of Richmond, where the regiment has been based for more than a century, has been twinned with Nord Fron. The window display, which will be officially on display to the public from Thursday, when the museum reopens after its winter closure, shows a Green Howard soldier wearing 1940 uniform, against a specially-painted scene showing the regiment in action in Norway.

An adjacent window has a display of photographs, including pictures of visits made to the regiment and to Richmond by three Kings of Norway, including the present King, Harald V.

Iris Vollborth, secretary of the Richmond Twinning Association, said: "Without the brave action of the Green Howards in Norway in 1940, Richmond would not have this invaluable relationship with the people of Nord Fron Kommune.

"We are delighted they have marked our twinning and their own Norwegian links with this special display."