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Описание: Imperial Russian Army 1917, Siberian Pontoon Reserve Battalion Jaroslavl, Сибирский понтонный резервный батальон Ярославль Verner Palmberg, my grandfather, marked with a point He got his first military education in Odesa, Одеса, Ukraine, officer's school. Served in Siberia, Riga and Jaroslawl. Send back to Estonia. Then he was drafted as an officer of the newly formed Estonian Army. From 1919-1920 he served on the Estonian armored trains. Soomusrong 3. After the war he worked for the government until 1939. His superior Laidoner advised him, before the Soviet takeover, to follow the Baltic Germans, as "R"uckkehrer". Other officers staying in Estonia were murdered or were deported to Siberia and other places in the Soviet Union. The price for no resistence against the occupation. General Laidoner: "In June 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Estonia and the other Baltic states. On 19 July 1940, Johan Laidoner and his wife were deported to the town of Penza in Russia, where they lived in forced exile until the beginning of the war with Germany in June 1941. They were then imprisoned and detained in prisons in Kirov, Ivanovo and Moscow as “honorary prisoners”, along with Konstantin P"ats and some Latvian, Lithuanian and Polish statesmen. In 1952, Laidoner was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a special deliberation of the Soviet Union Ministry of State Security. He was sent to Vladimir Prison, where he died on 13 March 1953. His remains have not been found, but it is known that he was buried at the prison cemetery, and a memorial plaque was placed there in the 1990s. " Source: Eesti S~ojamuuseum

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