The graves of the brothers of the Latvian soldiers who fell in the defense of Bauska against the Soviet occupation in 1944 in the Butki cemetery of Codes parish
Memorialinis vieta

The memorial site at the Butki cemetery was established after the Bauska branch of the Environmental Protection Club cleaned up the graves of approximately 30 Latvian soldiers who fell in the battles for the defense of Bauska in 1944, buried in two columns, in the autumn of 1988, and decided to erect a monument. A collection of donations followed for the construction of the monument. The monument made of red granite, dedicated to the soldiers of the Bauska Volunteer Battalion buried here, was unveiled on November 25, 1989, but already on the night of December 4/5, 1990, it was blown up by the USSR occupation army. In 1992, a massive wooden cross was erected in place of the monument. On October 13, 2002, a new granite monument, similar to the previously destroyed monument, was unveiled with the text carved into it: “For the Freedom of Latvia Those Who Fell in 1944.”