Memorial plaques for Lubāna residents who fell in World War I and the War of Independence at the Lubāna Lutheran Church
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Located in Lubāna, Baznīcas Street 1, in the Lutheran church.
A white marble memorial plaque to Colonel Oskars Kalpaks, installed in the Lubāna church during the interwar period, can be seen. On June 22, 1924, a memorial plaque was unveiled in the church to the fallen students of Lubāna secondary school. In 1926, a memorial plaque installed by the Lubāna parish to the fallen residents of the parish was unveiled, as well as a memorial plaque to the Prime Minister Hugo Celmiņš, who was born in "Nagliņa" in Lubāna parish.
Materials about Oskars Kalpaks and Hugo Celmiņš's everyday life can be viewed in the exhibition of the Lubāna Cultural and Historical Heritage and Tourism Information Center.
Used sources and references:
Lismanis, J. 1915-1920. In memory of battles and fallen soldiers: Memorial sites of the First World War and the Latvian Liberation Struggle. Riga: NIMS, 1999.
https://www.mk.gov.lv/sites/default/files/editor/premjeru_gramata.pdf
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