Tags: Military Structure.

Elvegårdsmoen is a military training camp site in the municipality of Narvik in Nordland county Norway. It is located in the inner end of Herjangsfjorden on the southeast side of the village of Bjerkvik. The site was of some importance during the German invasion of Norway in April 1940 and the subsequent Norwegian Campaign. The camp was occupied by German forces on 9 April 1940 and it was reconquerred by soldiers from the French Foreign Legion during the Battles of Narvik on 13 May 1940.

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