The First World War local history collection in Medumo
Museum
Located in Medumu village, Jaunatnes Street 4.
A private collection of historical evidence created by the Stikāns family. A collection of artifacts from the First and Second World Wars has been created, collected mostly from Medumi parish and the surrounding area. Both military heritage items and household items, coins, and photographs can be viewed.
The private collection can be viewed by prior arrangement. Admission is by donation.
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About the grave of the downed pilot
In the First World War, new technical means were used on a massive scale (machine guns, poison gas, tanks, submarines, artillery barrage tactics, flamethrowers, combat aircraft), which reached an unprecedented level of human casualties. It is said that the last knightly battles were fought in the air, because mutual respect and unwritten rules reigned among the pilots. At the beginning of the war, when the planes were not yet equipped with weapons and flew on observation missions, the pilots of the opposing sides even greeted each other in the air. Later, however, the opposing side would inform the opposing side about the downed or captured enemy pilots by flying to the enemy airfield and dropping a note in a sandbag or even a report from the captured pilots.