Gregers Gram Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram MC MM ( 15 December 1917 – 13 November 1944 ) was a Norwegian resistance fighter and saboteur . A corporal and later second lieutenant in the Norwegian Independent Company 1 during the Second World War , he was killed in 1944 . Early life . Gregers Gram was born in Vestre Aker in 1917 as the son of Harald Gram , later known as stipendiary magistrate of Oslo . He was named after his paternal grandfather Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram , who served as Norwegian Prime Minister in Stockholm and County Governor of Hedmark . Gram did not pass his examen artium at the first try , but later enrolled at the University of Oslo to study law . Second World War . When German troops invaded Norway on 9 April 1940 , Gregers Gram became active in the resistance movement . After serving as a soldier in the early battles following the German invasion , he soon became involved in propaganda activity and the illegal press , he had to flee from Norway in 1941 . After arriving in Great Britain , he was recruited by the Special Operations Executive and received military training with the Norwegian Independent Company 1 . He was paradropped into Norway together with Max Manus on 12 March 1943 , and the two performed a successful sabotage mission ( " Operation Mardonius " ) . Gram and Manus left Norway after " Operation Mardonius " , returning to the United Kingdom , where they stayed until October 1943 . Gram was awarded the British Military Medal as a result of his participation in the operation , the recommendation for the award describes how Manus became ill with pneumonia shortly after they arrived in Norway , meaning that Gram had to undertake much of the organisation on the ground , and also nursing Manus during his recovery . The most successful attack was on 28 April 1943 which resulted in the sinking of two ships , and damage to a third , despite the fact it was a very light night , and water conditions were such that the canoes generated a very visible phosphoresence in their wake . Gram was also decorated with Norway ' s War Cross with sword in summer 1943 , presented to him by King Haakon at a ceremony at the training school STS 26 in Scotland , near Nethy Bridge . In addition to Gram , Manus , and Rønneberg and Poulsson from the Rjukan missions , also received the War Cross with sword at this ceremony . Also present were Crown Prince Olav , Minister of Defence Oscar Torp , and Chief of Defence of Norway General von Tangen Hansteen . In October 1943 Gram ( along with Manus , Einar Juvén and C . F . Wiborg ) returned to Norway to perform a second operation , known as " Bundle " , targeting German ships . Other sabotage missions followed , coordinated within Oslogjengen , Milorg ' s sabotage group in Oslo led by Gunnar Sønsteby . Parallel to his saboteur activity , Gram continued his involvement with propaganda , including the black propaganda Operation Derby directed towards German soldiers . In particular he was involved in an attack organised by Sønsteby which destroyed German records about the Norwegian workforce , and his attack on an oil storage depot . Gram was killed on 13 November 1944 in an ambuscade in a café at Grünerløkka in Oslo . Together with fellow resistance member Edvard Tallaksen , Gram was set up at a meeting with faux Nazi deserters . Shooting ensued , and Gram was killed at the hands of Gestapo . His father Harald Gram , who was also involved in the resistance movement , survived the war . Legacy . At the time of his death , the process of recommending Gram for the British Military Cross was already under way ( this medal was not generally awarded posthumously at the time ) . The recommendation particularly mentions the successful sinking of a German patrol vessel in Oslo harbour in February 1944 , and the daring , but unsuccessful , daylight attack on the troopship " Monte Rosa " . His Military Medal was presented to his father on 7 February 1945 by Sir Victor Mallet , who was then head of the British Legation in Stockholm . To commemorate Gram a bust was erected near Njårdhallen , in the Ullern borough of Oslo , in 1994 . The road " Gregers Grams vei " in Oslo has been named after him . In 2008 he was portrayed in the Norwegian film " Max Manus " by actor Nicolai Cleve Broch .