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Hereby we provide to you an opportunity for insight into the everyday life of a unit of Latvian army, which was based in Litene army camp. Photos were taken in the late thirties by a Latvian citizen, who was serving in the army at that time[1].

Today army camp Litene is notorious for treacherous murder of the Latvian army personnel by the Soviets after occupation of Latvia by Soviet Union (bearing certain similarity to murder of Polish military personnel by Soviets in Katyn)

Still, in those sunny days in Latvia there was peace and order, and seemed that it will be like that forever.

Liberty monument in Cesis, 1937

Military manoeuvers, 1937

Army barracks in Litene, 1937

Red Cross sanatorium in vicinity of Raiskuma bridge in Cesis, 1937

Independence Day illumination of the castle in Cesis, 18th November 1937

Celebration day army parade in Litene, 1937

Army parade in Ergli, 1937 or 1938

Military manoeuvers in Laudona, 1938

Military manoeuvers, 1938

Field exercise in Litene, 1938

Monument to soldiers who died in Latvian War of Liberation, Gulbene, 1938