Shalva Loladze

[1] Loladze served in the Soviet military at the outbreak of World War II.

[2] He then joined the Georgische Legion of the Wehrmacht and served in the 882nd Infantry Battalion Königin Tamara with the rank of Leutnant (second lieutenant).

The battalion was deployed on the German-occupied Dutch island of Texel in the closing months of World War II.

The night of April 5/6, 1945, Loladze led an insurrection of the battalion's Georgian personnel.

[3] He is buried together with his comrades-in-arms at the Georgian War Cemetery of Texel which has been given Loladze's name.