{"id":193886,"date":"1948-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=193886"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:42:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:42:15","slug":"auto-insert-193886","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-193886\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine question – UN guard killed in Palestine – Press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UNITED NATIONS<\/p><\/div>\n

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Department of Public Information<\/p><\/div>\n

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Press and Publications Bureau<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lake Success, New York<\/p><\/div>\n

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Press Release PAL\/215<\/p><\/div>\n

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15 July 1948<\/p><\/div>\n

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UN GUARD, OLE BAKKE OF NORWAY, KILLED IN PALESTINE<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Secretary-General Trygve Lie announced today that he had received the following telegram from Colonel Nils Brunsson, one of the Swedish control officers on Count Bernadotte's staff in Palestine:<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t"<\/span>OLE HELGE BAKKE<\/a>, NORWEGIAN SUBJECT AND MEMBER OF THE UNITED NATIONS GUARD DETACHMENT ON MOUNT SCOPUS WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON THE ROAD TO MOUNT SCOPUS AT 13:20 G.M.T., JULY 13th.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tTEMPORARY BURIAL WILL BE ON MOUNT SCOPUS.  FULL DETAILS WILL FOLLOW.  PLEASE CONVEY TO FAMILY DEEPEST SYMPATHY MYSELF AND COLLEAGUES.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tCOLONEL BRUNSSON."\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n
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\t<\/span>Ole Helge Bakke, a Norwegian subject, joined the staff of the Â鶹APP at Headquarters on 4 November 1946 as chauffeur in its local transportation service.  He was born at Ringsaker, Norway, on 13 February 1919.  Before accepting employment with the Â鶹APP, Ole Bakke lived at Halden, Norway.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>He was married to Ellen Simonsen on 14 February 1948 in the Norwegian Seamen's Church at Brooklyn, N.Y.  Also surviving Ole Bakke is his mother, Mrs. Marit Bakke of Halden, Norway.  His address in the United States was 5409 – 8th Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>Bakke's life was insured by the Â鶹APP for $25,000, which will be paid to his widow.  The Â鶹APP will also pay the expenses of returning his body to New York and any other additional expenses.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>The Â鶹APP flag at Lake Success will fly at half-mast today in Ole Bakke's honor.<\/p><\/div>\n

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UNITED NATIONS Department of Public Information Press and Publications Bureau Lake Success, New York Press Release PAL\/215 15 July 1948 UN GUARD, OLE BAKKE OF NORWAY, KILLED IN PALESTINE Secretary-General Trygve Lie announced today that he had received the following telegram from Colonel Nils Brunsson, one of the Swedish control officers on Count Bernadotte's staff […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[1897,3877],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2365,1749],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-193886","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-source-united-nations-mediator-on-palestine","document-subject-international-presence","document-subject-palestine-question","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/193886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/193886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=193886"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=193886"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=193886"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=193886"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=193886"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=193886"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=193886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}