Hammerskjöld Medal

U.N. Geneva, Page UNG-99.3 (BL-2)

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Every year in early June, the United Nations has a service to remember U.N. troops and staff that have died during the previous year while performing their duties – or as they say, fallen in the cause of peace. The souvenir sheet and the stamp in the middle of this album page commemorates that ceremony and those people who died from January 1 to December 31, 1998.

The started doing this in 1961 when the then Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld, along with fifteen others, died in a plane crash in the Congo while working to bring peace to the region. The total number of peacekeepers that have died since they started in 1948 is four-thousand four-hundred thirty-three. There are more that died that weren’t peacekeepers, but I haven’t found that data.

When they have the ceremony, they hand-out a printed list of those who died, where they died, and from which country they belong. The card has some text at the top that reads like this:

U.N. Memorial Card

Everyday,in field operations around the world, men and women serve under the flag of the United Nations to build and maintain peace, to relieve human suffering, and to promote human rights and sustainabled evelopment.

With integrity, commitment and courage they meet humanity’s greatest challenges, overcoming any fears for their personal safety or security. Tragically, in this noble endeavour, there are those who make the ultimate sacrifice.

In honour of their memory, we dedicate ourselves to continuing their mission, at Headquarters and in the field. We share the grief of their loved ones and pledge ourselves to ensuring that their sacrifice in the service of the United Nations will not have been in vain.

Note

The souvenir sheet here is a nicely done one. This one I like and have no complaints. The set of four stamps of animals is for the Endangered Species series. See the Endangered Species Trade page for more information.

Contains 8 spots: own 8 – 8 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Endangered Species

1.1	✓	336	Asian Wild Ass	0.90 (apr 1999) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	337	Hyacinth Macaw Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus	0.90 (apr 1999) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	338	Jamaican Boa	0.90 (apr 1999) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	339	Bennett’s Tree Kangaroo	0.90 (apr 1999) comm., multicolor
3.1	✓	349	Education	0.90 (nov 1999) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	347	Dag-Hammerskjöld Medal Died in Service of Peace	1.10 (sep 1999) comm., multicolor
3.3	✓	350	Education	1.80 (nov 1999) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	348	Dag-Hammerskjöld Medal Died in Service of Peace	2 (sep 1999) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

• Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).

• Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.

• Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.

• To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.

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