World War 1, North Russia, Murmansk, 1919
Photograph of three unidentified Australians serving in British unit in North Russia
In the years following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the Russian Empire descended into a brutal civil war in which millions of people died. Throughout 1918 and 1919, several hundred Australians served in foreign intervention forces in the terrible conflict. Australians served in training, reconnaissance and advisory roles in regions ranging from the territory of the Don Cossacks in Ukraine, and as far as to western Siberia. The largest Australian contribution was in Russia’s north, as part of a multinational force sent to the port towns of Murmansk and Archangel’sk. There they assisted anti-Bolshevik White Russian forces and protected allied stores that had been sent to the now deposed tsarist armies in their fight against Germany.
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No Western Australians have yet been positively identified in Museum records as having served in this theatre.
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Australian Army Museum of Western Australia
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