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Poul Anton Ringdal was born in Kristiania (Oslo) Feb. 16, 1894. He was the son of Rasmus Johan Ringdal (1858-1933) and Anne Marie nee Poulsen (1861-1921). Dec. 22, 1925 he married Elisabeth Marie Onarheim (1904-1937), a pianist.
He was appointed as a lieutenant in 1915,
as a captain in 1918,
and as a major in the Artillary in 1936.
In 1929 he got a degree in law, and 1929-1932 run his own law firm in Oslo.
During the war he first served in 'Totengruppen' in April 1940. They had to surrender April 30, but major Ringdal was not captured, and he crossed Norway on ski.
In May 1940 sailed from Sogn to Scotland, where he organized the new Norwegian Artillary. He stayed there approx. 2 years.
In May 1942 he went to North Africa, and joined the British 8. Army. He fought in the battle of El Alamein, and later in Libya.
Then he went to Turkey as a Norwegian Military representativ,
and in 1945 he returned to Britain and joined the military staff.
He came to Bergen, Norway May 15, 1945 as a member of the District Command of Western Norway.
In 1949-1950 he was in Kashmir for the UN, in
1951-1952 he served in Korea.In 1946 he published a book called 'Der krigslykken snudde'.