Monument to the Unknown Faller in the War of Independence
Memorial site

Located in Drabešu parish, 74 km of Vidzeme highway (about a kilometer behind Ieriķi), driving from Riga, on the right side of the road opposite Birzīši house.

A monument to a Latvian soldier who fell in June 1919 can be seen, which was found in this place after the retreat of the Landesweer, who was defeated in the battles of Cēsis.
On May 6, 1934, a monument was unveiled on the grave of an unknown soldier, made in the local limestone by the forest ranger of the Drabešu forestry of the Cēsis Superintendent, the guard of the 10th Cēsis Guard Regiment and Alfreds Kaņeps, the owner of the Ieriķi mill. At the same time, he dedicated the self-made monument to his older brother Mārtiņš Kaņeps, who disappeared without a trace during the First World War, while serving in Latvian rifle formations.

It was overthrown several times during the communist occupation, but disappeared completely in 1984. At the beginning of the Awakening, in the summer of 1988, the burial site was marked with a temporary memorial.
The restored monument, the carving of which was undertaken by the sculptor Maija Baltiņa, who did it together with her husband's sculptor Andrejs Jansons, was unveiled on November 11, 1988.

The new monument, which became the first newly built and erected memorial to the War of Liberation during the Awakening, is made of granite, unlike the original, and is two meters high together with the base.