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This is a Russian imperial military document from 1914 chronicling the wounding and hospitalization of Itzig Benjaminson. Trained as a pharmacist in Hasenpoth and Libau, and at the University of Odessa, he was drafted into the Russian 113th Infantry Regiment (raised mostly in Latvia). He was an infantryman and was wounded in fighting at Darkehmen, East Prussia in November 1914. (That city is now known as Ozyorsk in Kaliningrad.) He was shot in the right leg and then his feet were frostbitten while he was lying wounded. After his time in the hospital, he was promoted to Lieutenant in the Pharmacy Branch of the Czar's Army. After the Russian Revolution, he was demobilized and returned to Latvia. He ran a pharmacy near Daugavpils and was murdered there along with his wife Jeva in the fall of 1941.

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