Priežastys, dėl kurių apdovanojimas buvo suteiktas šarvuočio vadui A.Klestrovui
Sėkmingai atremęs priešo puolimą, ginkluoto traukinio vadas A.Klestrovas krenta ir pulkininkas Dankeris išdavė pagrindą apdovanojimui gauti.
„1919 m. lapkritį ginkluoto traukinio „KOLPAKS“ vadas leitenantas leitenantas KĻESTROVAS sumaniai vadovavo traukiniui prieš vokiečius.
Vokiečiai buvo netoli Liepojos ir nuolat apšaudė stotį ir geležinkelio liniją, kurioje buvo „KOLPAKS“. Lapkričio 3 d., po vidurdienio, vokiečiai puolė fortus ir pradėjo bendrą Liepojos šturmą. Šarvuotasis traukinys, sumaniai vadovaujamas leitenanto KLESTROVO, nepaisant nepaliaujamos priešo artilerijos ir kulkosvaidžių ugnies, išėjo į kontrataką. Kai traukinys pasiekė priešo grandines taip, kad pabūkla buvo neįmanoma valdyti, oberleitnantas KLESTROVAS ir jo komanda, palaikomi kulkosvaidžių ugnies iš traukinio, išėjo pasitikti priešo į durtuvų kovą, kurios priešas neatlaikė ir pradėjo trauktis. Sėkmingai persekiojant priešą, ober-leitenantas KLESTROVAS nukrito nuo priešo kulkos.
Klestrovas buvo apdovanotas Laplaso riterių ordino III laipsniu, 1922 m.
1935. g. K. žūties vietoje, prie Liepojos geležinkelio ir Liepojos-Grobinos plento sankryžos, pastatyta memorialinė lenta.
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Monument to Latvian Army Lieutenant Alfreds Klestrovs, battle site of the armoured train "Kalpaks"
Lieutenant Commander of the Armoured Train Lieutenant Alfred Klestrov , born 8 March 1897 in Liepaja. Graduated from Liepāja City School, then from the surveyors' school in Riga.
Conscripted into the Russian Army during World War I, graduated from the Battalion School in Moscow. Served on the Romanian front, fought in Ukraine. When Ukraine was occupied by German troops, he returned to Riga.
The Order was awarded in 1922
Conscripted into the Latvian Army in the spring of 1919, served in the additional battalion of the 3rd Latgale Division. In October 1919 he was assigned to the armoured train "Kalpaks" as a commander.
On 4 November 1919, when the Germans attacked Liepāja, the commander of the armoured train "Kalpaks", Lieutenant Alfred Klyestrov, under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, counter-attacked and got behind enemy lines with the armoured train. Unable to open cannon fire, he led his team in a bayonet fight and dispersed the enemy, thus contributing to the withdrawal of the Bermontese attack, but he himself fell in this battle to a bullet from German soldiers who had entrenched themselves at home and remained behind the Latvian army soldiers.
In 1935, a memorial plaque was erected at the place of death of Lieutenant Alfred Klestrovs, commander of the armoured train "Kalpaks", at the junction of the Liepāja railway and Liepāja-Grobiņa highway.
Treasure House of the Free State
A unique exposition on the history of military and civil awards of the first free state of Latvia, as well as various organizations related to the activities of state and civil organizations in the period from the Latvian War of Independence to the Second World War.
Several hundred different historical evidences from Latvian and foreign private collections are exhibited in the exhibition house, covering the period from 1918 to 1940, revealing the pages of the history of Latgale and Rēzekne.
