Topic Group - Military groups and formations

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Garrison
"Take, Fatherland, I am all yours!" The breastplate of the individual student decoration. Designed by the student decoration soldier architect K. Celmiņš ("Selonija"). The breastplate was made from a single piece of natural Latvian amber, the spear - from silver. Source: Latvian Gazette.
Independent Student Company
Apūznieki battle
A group of Latvian and Estonian officers at Cēsis railway station near an Estonian armored train that participated in the Battle of Cēsis, 5 June 1919. 1st row from the left: 3rd Jorģis Zemitāns, 4th Krišjānis Berķis, 5th Voldemārs Ozols. Photo from the Cēsis History and Art Museum.
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Battle of Cēsis (Estonian: Võnnu lahing)
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Omakaitse
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Battle of Bey (Babeck)
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National Partisan Resistance Movement in Zemgale
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National resistance movement
The entry of the North Latvian Brigade into Riga on July 6, 1919. On the second white horse, the brigade commander-in-chief Jorģis Zemitāns. Photographer Jānis Rieksts. Photo from the Cēsis History and Art Museum.
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Northern Latvia Brigade
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National Partisan Resistance Movement in Selia
Balodisbunkurs
Rubenis Battalion
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Latvian Army Aviation Regiment
Latvian riflemen after being awarded for attacking the German army near the Weiss house. 1915. Source: Latvian War Museum.
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Latvian Riflemen in World War I
Archives of the Samogitian Art Museum.
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Hawks
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Division
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Latvian Independent Battalion
Landeswehr soldiers in the battles of Cēsis in June 1919. Press photo from the Cēsis History and Art Museum.
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Landeswehr. Baltic Landeswehr
Author unknown. Published in "Kario" - 1968, issue 9.
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Battle of Seda
Parade of the Western Volunteer Army and the Iron Division near Jelgava. September 1, 1919. Source: LNVM collection.
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German Iron Brigade
Minister of Education Augusts Tentelis at the opening ceremony of the monument dedicated to the student detachment of the Cēsis Regiment in Cēsis, 1938. Source: Cēsis Museum of History and Art
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Cēsis Regiment Schoolboys' Company
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Finnish Jaegers
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Finnish Volunteer Regiment "Boys of the North" ("Pohjan Pojat")
Source: Gita Memmēna, Vidzeme Tourism Association
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Battle of Stompak
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Estonian Legion
Kārlis Ulmanis accepts the parade of the 7th Sigulda Infantry Regiment in Alūksne (1930s). Source: https://lv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=141946
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7th Sigulda Infantry Regiment
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Echelon
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National partisans/ Forest brothers
1. Riflemen of the Daugavgrīva Latvian Battalion who were awarded the George Cross and medals for the battle near Plakanie on October 17-30, 1915. Source. Latvian Rifleman. No. 2. 1924
1. Daugavgriva Latvian Riflemen Regiment
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Latvian Legion battles in Courland/Zemgalia 1944-1945
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Regiment
Destruction Battalions
Latvian Army soldiers moving into positions during the attack of Bermont's army. Riga. October 1919. Source: Latvian National History Museum.
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Bermontiade
Latvian legionnaires training in Paplakā in the summer of 1944. Source: Latvian War Museum.
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Latvian legionnaires
The Army of the Latvian SSR parades on 1st of May 1919. In the Background: the Museum of Art.
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The Red Army occupies Riga
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Īle Partisan Group
Coat of Arms of Latvian National Armed Forces.
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Latvian Army
VDK
Committee for State Security/KGB
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Preserving the memory of Estonian soldiers in Latvia
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Kabile National Partisan Group
Soldiers of the Separate Latvian Brigade in the spring of 1919. Source: https://www.wiseacres.org.uk/baltic/pix/Balodis-Brigade.jpg
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South Latvian Brigade or Separate Latvian Brigade
Partisan activity in Northern Latgale
Latvian Red Riflemen at the May 1, 1919 parade in Riga at the former monument to Peter I (now the square near the Freedom Monument). Source: Wikipedia.
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Latvian Red Riflemen
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Congress of Lithuanian Partisan Commanders
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Soviet military bases in Latvia
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War of Independence. Liberation of Jelgava.
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Latvian Provisional Government's armed forces
Vytautas the Great War Museum arch.
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Samogitian Partisan District
The standard of the Latgale Separate Squadron during the liberation of Latgale. Photo from the Latvian War Museum.
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Liberation of Latgale from the Bolsheviks
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Kurelians
Soldiers of the 1st (4th) Valmiera Infantry Regiment's Signals Team. Spring 1919. Photo: from the Latvian War Museum
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1st (4th) Valmiera Infantry Regiment