Graves of soldiers of the 1 ppLeg fallen in the Latsgal campaign buried in the Catholic cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2021
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Photo showing Graves in the Catholic cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war
Graves of soldiers of the 1 ppLeg fallen in the Latsgal campaign buried in the Catholic cemetery, photo Ambasada RP w Rydze, 2003
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Photo showing Graves in the Catholic cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war
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Graves in the Catholic cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war

ID: WOJ-000102-W/58284 (LV-0007a)

Graves in the Catholic cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war

The local cemetery contains two graves with decorative cast-iron crosses. Resting here are three soldiers of the 1st Legion Infantry Regiment who fell in battles against the Bolsheviks between Bukmujja (Lat. Ezernieki) and Pontaky on 23 and 24 January 1920. According to an archive sketch, it was established that initially the soldiers rested in two distant locations in this cemetery - in one of the graves rested two soldiers - Private Bolesław Bartnik and Private Józef Przepióra, in the single grave - Private Stanisław Czarnecki. In the 1930s the single grave was moved. In the inter-war period there were plans to place two monuments on the graves, which, however, did not come to fruition. The provenance of the decorative crosses that currently tower over these graves is unknown.

The graves are easy to find - they are located behind a tall white simple cross, on a hill.

In 2004, the Polish Embassy in Riga, together with the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Remembrance, restored the crosses. A small plot of land was separated around it, bounded by stone posts with a chain. The created plot is located on the slope of the hill, and a boulder topped with a bronze sculpture of an eagle with outstretched wings was placed at the bottom. On the stone, beneath the eagle, a plaque with an inscription in Polish and Latvian was placed: "Resting place of soldiers / of the Polish Army/ fallen for the freedom of Poland and Latvia/ in the Latgalian Campaign of 1920// Ś.+P./ Szer. Bolesław BARTNIK, / 11 komp. 1 pp Leg./Ser. Stanisław CZARNECKI, / 3 kkm 1 pp Leg. /Ser. Józef PRZEPIÓRA, / 9 komp. 1 pp Leg." On the lower right post there is an information plate with a bilingual Polish and Latvian inscription "Renovation of the grave / from the fund of the Council for the Protection of Memory / of Struggles and Martyrdom / 2004". The last conservation of the object was carried out in 2020 by the Foundation Aid to Poles in the East as part of a task co-financed from the programme of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage "Sites of National Remembrance Abroad".

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22.06.2022
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Graves of soldiers of the 1 ppLeg fallen in the Latsgal campaign buried in the Catholic cemetery Photo showing Graves in the Catholic cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war Gallery of the object +1
Graves of soldiers of the 1 ppLeg fallen in the Latsgal campaign buried in the Catholic cemetery, photo MKiDN, 2021
Graves of soldiers of the 1 ppLeg fallen in the Latsgal campaign buried in the Catholic cemetery Photo showing Graves in the Catholic cemetery of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik war Gallery of the object +1
Graves of soldiers of the 1 ppLeg fallen in the Latsgal campaign buried in the Catholic cemetery, photo Ambasada RP w Rydze, 2003

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