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Served in Russia 1917-1920
Served in Russia 1917-1920
Large numbers of British Empire and Allied serviceman were sent to Russia after the 1917 Revolution to help the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; they served in North Russia, the Caucasus, Siberia and the Baltic. Whenever I come across one I add him to this community.
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Born 1899
British Army British Supply Mission North Russia
Royal Navy Clyde Z/2296 Able Seaman Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Royal Naval Division
Royal Navy Clyde Z/2296 Ordinary Seaman Royal Naval Division, Benbow Battalion Aged 15 - discharged in 1916 underage and then re-enlisted
More about Abercrombie B Davidson -
Born 1884
Died 1918
British Army 27560 Private Northamptonshire Regiment 3rd Battalion
British Army 39357 Lance Corporal North Staffordshire Regiment 7th battalion, northst Battalion
More about Arthur George Jarrett -
Born 1881
Died 1919
Royal Navy 204391 Petty Officer HMS Dragon
More about John Stephen Stroud -
Born 1889
Died 1919
British Army 21811 Corporal Royal Warwickshire Regiment 9th Battalion
More about Levi Cockroft -
Born 1896
Died 1920
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Flight Commander Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force, H.M.S. "Pegasus"
More about Francis Neville Halsted -
Born 1888
Died 1919
Royal Navy Captain
Other Empire Force Major RMLI Attached Karelian Regiment
Royal Navy Lieutenant RMLI HMS Mars
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More about Lewis Arthur Drake-Brockman -
Born 1901
Died 1919
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 161234 Aircraftman 2nd Class Royal Air Force
More about Herbert George Adams -
Born 1899
Died 1919
British Army S/19632 Private Royal Highlanders
British Army S/28573 Private Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
British Army 367531 Sapper Royal Engineers, Signals
More about Sidney Baldwin -
Born 1882
Died 1965
British Army 1660664 Battery Serjeant Major Sussex Royal Field Artillery
British Army 374008 Warrant Officer Class 2 "C" Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Tarasevo, Russia
More about Charles Frederick Grayson -
Born 1885
Royal Navy 1746 Royal Marine Light Infantry: Plymouth Division
Royal Navy Temporary Second Lieutenant Royal Marine Light Infantry: Chatham Division
Royal Navy Temporary Second Lieutenant Royal Marines Field Force North Russia
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More about Richard Charles Carvell -
Born 1893
Died 1919
Royal Navy 16757 Private Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth Division
More about Gordon Grant Bowles -
Born 1900
Died 1920
British Army 61188 Private Essex Regiment
More about Charles Henry Bushell -
Born 1899
Died 1919
Royal Navy J38578 Able Seaman HMS Dragon
More about George William Lowe -
Born 1889
Died 1975
British Army Volunteer Slovak British Mission North Russia Expeditionary Force
Other Empire Force Podporuchik Russkaja Imperatorskaja Armija
Other Empire Force Kapitan 33-y Sibirskiy strelkovyy polk
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More about Vasily Prootkovsky -
Born 1895
Died 1979
Other Empire Force Attached Karelian Regiment
British Army Temporary Lieutenant Lancashire Fusiliers
British Army Temporary Second Lieutenant Lancashire Fusiliers 11th (Service) Battalion
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More about Nicholas Edwin Mende -
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
British Army Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force
More about Ernest Theodore Rogers -
Born 1888
Died 1918
British Army 203381 Private North Staffordshire Regiment 7th battalion, northst Battalion
More about Albert Brown -
Born 1884
Royal Navy 10571 Royal Marine Artillery
Royal Navy 10571 Bombardier Royal Marine Artillery
Other Empire Force Lieutenant RMA Finnish Legion
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More about William Douglas Craig -
Born 1896
Died 1919
Royal Navy J20915 Able Seaman HMS Dragon
More about Charles William Broad -
Born 1898
Died 1919
British Army 35553 Private Worcestershire Regiment 9th battalion, worcest Battalion
More about George Pincott