Monument and memorial markers to the soldiers of O. Kalpaka Battalion at Aizpore Cemetery
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About halfway between Rudbārži and Kalvė, on the side of an old road parallel to the A9 highway, is the Aizpore Cemetery.
There is a monument and 12 memorials to the volunteer soldiers of Oskars Kalpaka's battalion, who lived in the surrounding houses.
The Aizpore half-manor of the Kalvene municipality was the farthest place to which the Latvian Separate (Kalpaka) Battalion retreated on 22 January 1919. Here the battalion received its first reinforcements from Liepāja - 35 men and launched a counter-attack, reaching Rudbārži on 24 January.
The idea of erecting a monument was conceived in the 1920s, when former soldiers of the 1st Latvian Separate Battalion, or Kalpaka Battalion, erected a temporary memorial sign - a block of oak with a plaque. At that time, the idea of creating a larger memorial ensemble was born, but it was only realised on 15 May 1993, when the memorial sign - the Ray of Light - was unveiled - an obelisk made of grey granite.
The 2.3 m high memorial sign is made by sculptors Harijs SPRINCIS and Imants LUKAŽIS (1930 - 2007, buried in Aizpuri Cemetery), whose father was also a soldier of O. Kalpaka's battalion. The names of the poet E.VIRZA are engraved on the memorial sign:
KALPAKAM
AND HIS
TO THE SOLDIERS
1919
MORNING OF 25 JANUARY
FROM THIS DAY
ALSO FROM
FIRE
OVER LATVIA
At the same time, the graves of the 12 Kalpaks buried in the cemetery were marked with oak memorial plaques, which were replaced by granite markers in 2019.
In the early 1990s, a two-metre-high monument was erected in the cemetery, next to which grows an oak tree planted in the mid-1990s by the legendary actor Ēvalds Valters.
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Aizporu half manor in the War of Independence
Aizporu Half Manor, Aizpute district, Kalvene municipality, is the westernmost place in Latvia to which Colonel Oskars Kalpaks' separate battalion retreated.
Halfway between Rudbārži and Kalvenė, on the side of the road, is the Aizpore cemetery. There is a monument and 12 memorials to the volunteer soldiers of Oskars Kalpaka's battalion.