Russia 1919

Chaps

Does anyone know if there is a published work on the RAF involvement in the Russian Revolution in 1919?

Cheers
Jim

[dpolglaze]

JimD,

There is at least a little bit in the H.A. Jones book "Over the Balkans and South Russia" about 47 Squadron. It's in the latter part of the book. Also, an appendix of Wise's "Canadian Airmen" has some information.

For more books on the subject, and a nice discussion, see an old Aerodrome thread:
http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/ar...p/t-13041.html

Dan

[TomVrille]

Chapter 8 of Raymond Collishaw's book Air Command contains a good overview of the structure and operations of the reconstituted 47 Squadron in Russia.

[Varese2002]

Christopher Dobson, John Miller
The Day We Almost Bombed Moscow: The Allied War in Russia, 1918-1920. Hodder & Stoughton, 1986, 288 PP. Includes bibliography.

ISBN 0340337230

Kees

Chaps thanks for that, I have a pair of medals to an Air Mechanic and the first theatre of war he entered was North Russia in 1919, so I am interested to know what he was up to, looks like I have some reading ahead of me.

Cheers
Jim

[Graeme]

Jim

Additional light reading are the Despatches from:

Major-General F. C. Poole, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces in Northern Russia (later by General Lord Rawlinson, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., A.D.C., Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces in North Russia);

Major-General C. M. Maynard, C.B., G.M.G., D.S.O., Commanding-in-Chief, Allied Forces, Murmansk;

Major-General Sir W. E. Ironside, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Commanding-in-Chief Allied Forces, Archangel;

John F. E. Green, Rear-Admiral, Senior Naval Officer, White Sea;

E. Altham, Captain, R.N., Senior Naval Officer, Archangel River Expedition;

T. W. Kemp, Rear-Admiral.

These appear in various editions of the London Gazette from 6 April to 8 July 1920 - about 51 sides of A4!

Graeme

Graeme

Thanks for that...... will get onto the LG over the weekend.

Cheers
Jim

[Graeme]

Jim

I think I've got copies of the Despatches in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format. If you drop me your e-mail address I'll see if I can squirt them down the line to you (trawling through the Gazettes on-line is hell!!). If not, I've got them in Word document format (you'll have to take my word that the spellings are as per the originals).

Graeme

[Frank_Olynyk]

Graeme,

Is there Despatch covering South Russia? All the ones you listed would seem to be North Russia, except for the White Sea one, which I think would be farther east.

Frank.

[maten]

There is also Captain Marion Aten's/ Arthur Orrmont's "Last Train Over Rostov Bridge", though it is a heavily "novelized" account of Aten's experiences their. This book was published in the early 1960's and is available used in several different editions, try ABEbooks.com. Aten also wrote a seperate serialized account that appeared in several issues of "Liberty" Magazine in the mid 1930's.