Memorial sites of generals and knights of the Lāčplēsis Military Order in Trikāta parish
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The memorial stele is located next to the Trikāta cemetery chapel.
The Trikāta cemetery preserves the memory of three outstanding Latvian generals - Roberts Dambītis, Kārlis Goppers and Jānis Balodis. The teacher of all these generals, Jēkabs Mūrnieks, is also buried in the Trikāta cemetery, for whom a monument made of travertine, modeled after Kārlis Zāle, was erected at the burial site in 1928.
The generals and knights of the Lāčplēsis Military Order are commemorated every year with torchlight processions to the Trikāta cemetery, where there are two memorial steles, in which a total of 17 names of knights of the Lāčplēsis Military Order associated with the Trikāta parish are engraved.
The stele was unveiled on November 11, 2018.
Video about the Lāčplēsis War Order and a set of orders that belonged to General Jānis Balodis.
Used sources and references:
LSM.LV, 31.10.2018; eLiesma, 08.11.2018
http://trikatasvesture.beverina.lv
RE:tv "Remember the Lāčplēšis!" 29.11.2015.
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