Bjørn Egge

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Bjørn Egge CBE (born 19 August 1918 in Kristiansand, died 25 July 2007) was a retired Major General of the Norwegian Defence Force.

Egge was a soldier during the German attack on Norway in 1940. He participated in the break out by Norwegian merchant vessels from Gothenburg in March 1942, the vessel he was on board was sunk and he was captured by the Germans.

He spent three years in German concentration camps and returned to Norway in May 1945. After the war Egge entered officers training and served in the Norwegian army in various positions.

Egge served with the Norwegian contingent in Democratic Republic of Congo in 1960 as an intelligence officer, and he was the first to get to the site where the United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld had died.

Egge was a Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav, Commander of the British Empire, Knight of the Order of the Sword, Knight of the Order of the Falcon as well as a recipient of the Atlantic Star.

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