Field Coverage

Funeral Held in Leopoldville for Swedish Airmen

26 September 1962

A ceremonial military funeral was held in Leopoldville today for Warrant Officers Per Olov Gunnar Solvestad and Raoul C. Gosta Colmgren, two members of the ONUC Swedish contingent who died when a UN twin-engine transport plane was shot down on 20 September near Kamuza, in the Kabongo area.
Seen here is the Nigerian Army Band which played the ""Last Post"".

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