It was formed in February 1942 and attached to the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord (although the company was formally a police unit).

For almost its entire career, the battalion was part of the 6th SS Mountain Division "Nord", fighting on the Karelian Front in Finland.

The formation of the new Norwegian SS Skijaeger Battalion took place at military training grounds in Oulu, Finland in the autumn of 1943.

For the most part the Norwegian officers were young men who had obtained front line experience with the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking or the "Frw.

As a consequence of an armistice in September 1944, the German Lapland Army, including the battalion, retreated through North Finland into Norway.