A ceremony will be held at United Nations headquarters here tomorrow to pay homage to the memory of Major J. Roland Plane, the 37 year-old Swedish officer who was killed in the Suez Canal sector July 27 while serving as a member of the UN’s Truce Supervision Organization, Maj. Plane, the first fatality suffered by UN forces in the Suez Canal zone, was hit by fragments of an Israeli shell at an observation post near Port Tewfik. He is to be burled in Sweden tomorrow. Secretary General U Thant will place a wreath beneath the plaque which honors UN military observers who have lost their lives in the service of the organization.
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