Individual burial of LKOK captain Pauls Zolts at the Mazsalaca cemetery
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Located in the Mazsalaca cemetery
The individual burial of Captain Pauls Zolts (1880-1919) can be viewed.
On September 9, 1934, a black granite tombstone with text was unveiled on Zolts' grave.
Captain Zolts' name is also engraved on a monument in Kaugurciems, where a total of six soldiers from the 2nd or P.Zolts Company of the Separate Student Battalion fell in the battle of May 18, 1919.
Captain Paulis Zolts, commander of the 2nd Company of the Separate Student Battalion of the Latvian Separate Brigade, who fell near Kaugurciems on May 18, 1919, was initially buried in the fraternal cemetery near the Ķemeri Lutheran Church. On May 18, 1920, his remains were exhumed and transferred to Mazsalaca, where they were laid to rest in the family cemetery on May 25.
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.sargs.lv/lv/latvijas-neatkaribas-kars/2019-05-23/1919-gada-18-maija-kauja-kaugurciema
