Private Collection of World War I Heritage and Local History
Museum
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The Stikāni family are engaged in collecting historical artefacts. The collected historical evidence of Medumi Parish and the surrounding area is accumulated in the small, purpose-built building. An extensive collection of World War I and World War II artefacts is on display at the museum.
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Information prepared by the Tourism Department of the Augšdaugava Region
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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.