478:"Later, with two other companies, he was summoned near the city of Klaipėda and after Captain Strielnikas captured the Althof manor, he received the task of occupying the bar and taking the city. They pushed the entrenched enemy with a powerful blow and forced them to retreat. The operation was complicated by the fact that the left wing – the second company – stopped as its company commander was killed near the Rumpischen estate and began to retreat in confusion. Nevertheless, at the risk of death every minute, setting an example to his subjects, he went forward and captured a part of the city as far as the river Danga, capturing about 60 well-armed Frenchmen with officers and 10 machine guns."
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to participate in an international scout meeting. In 1927 Kalmantas led a scout delegation that went to Sweden for an international scout festival. From 1925 to 1927 he was a chief scout. In
February 1926 Kalmantas was promoted to mayor. In 1927 Kalmantas, along with others, established the
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Kalmantas. On 14 May 1941 Kalmantas was arrested and interrogated. The interrogators especially questioned Kalmantas on his work with the Lithuanian-Finnish Rapprochement Society. However, the interrogation did not finish due to the
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Kalmantas from prison, after which he joined rebels in Kaunas. On the same day, Kalmantas was appointed as the deputy head of the armaments board of the Kaunas war command, which was just formed by order of the
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Vilnius. On 20 August 1920 he was made chief of the 6th, and later the Training, Company. As was the customary reward for people serving in the army during the
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Vanda Kalmantienė née Gintilaitė (m. 1930; 1908–1965)
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