Photos Russian Civil War 1917-1922

[BravoZulu]

This car is used one of the parties in the conflict between the White Army and the Red Army in Mongolia,1920.

 

[BravoZulu]

Nicholas II after being taken captive, c. 1917.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. LC-B2- 4315-10)

Leon Trotsky reviewing troops of the Red Guard c. 1918.
Bain News Service/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ggbain-33302)

The Bolsheviks in Moscow after the October (November) Revolution 1917. The building in the background is Moscow's State Historical Museum.

A Red Army detachment during the War.

Red Army Cavalry

 

[NebrHogger]

After the Czar callously sacrificed so many troops, it's not hard to see why it was time for change in Russia. I don't feel there was a need to murder his entire family, though.

And Trotsky - doing okay in the pic, but that vacation to Mexico would not end well for him.

 

[BravoZulu]

^^ Mr Trosky, let me get you some ice for that drink!

 

[Ratnik]

Kuban Cossack

 

[DTA]

Red partisans from Chuguev region 1919-1920

 

[morris]

I have some material about ANZAC involvement in the civil war, one day will post it in a separate topic.

 

[DTA]

some photos of red partisans from russian far east


Machine gun team of 4th partisan unit of the Suchan military district

Vasily Vlasovich Yurasov, partisan, commander of a cavalry scout platoon

Partisans of Suchan military district

Partisan unit of Suchan military district

commanders of partisan unit

The special purpose detachment and 4th partisan unit of the Suchan military district after capturing of the village of Shkotovo

Philip Semyonovich Silin, participant of the civil war in Far East , partisan

A group of young partisans- Komsomol members from the city of Nikolsk-Ussuriysk

Suchansk partisan unit . 1919

 

[BravoZulu]

Two unidentified Australians from the 45th Royal Fusiliers having fun in the snow. The two men are members of the North Russian Expeditionary Force. 1919

Australian Fusiliers of the 45th Battalion in Russia, 1919

 

[BravoZulu]

Greek soldiers during the Allied Intervention in Ukraine, 1919

 

[morris]

 

[morris]

One of the sergeants to serve at Archangel was John Robert Cowan Kelly of Glen Innes.
In June 1918, Kelly was detached for special duty with the Imperial Army and transferred to ‘Elope’
Force. He embarked from Newcastle aboard the ‘City of Marseilles’ on 16 June, 1918, and arrived
in Murmansk on 23 June. He was appointed sergeant of the School of Archangel Musketry on 11
November, 1918. After spending a year with ‘Elope Force’ in North Russia, Kelly was evacuated
from Archangel to England on 17 June, 1919. John Robert Cowan Kelly returned to Australia
aboard ‘Ajana’ on 10 October 1919 and was discharged on 9 December 1919.
He kept a diary during his service in northern Russia and I will post some pages and pictures from it here.

Sergeant BH Perry (seated) and Sergeant John Kelly (standing); two Australian members of the Elope Force who went to North Russia in 1918. Sergeant BH Perry collection. AWM A05188.

 

[morris]

A Russian military enthusiast is keeping alive the memory of an an obscure chapter in Australian military history.

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Portrait of Corporal Arthur Percival Sullivan VC, a member of the AIF, who, later enlisted in the North Russian Relief Force, in the 45th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers and gained his Victoria Cross for gallantry in rescuing under fire an officer and three men from drowning whilst fighting a rearguard action during a withdrawal across the Sheika River. Corporal Sullivan is wearing the North Russian Relief Force Star.

 

[DTA]

1st Cavalry Army (1920)

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[morris]

 

[BravoZulu]

The wreck of HMS L55 in the Soviet dry dock at Kronshtadt after salvage in 1928. The boat was sunk in a WWI minefield after a failed attack on the Bolshevik destroyers Azard and Gavriil prompted a gun fight, 9 June 1919. She would serve the Soviets from 1931-1950.

 

[guest0001]

I hope the local politbureau won't object to taking up BravoZulus' previous thread. It's just an amazing story imho, so I wanted to share more details of the story, I stole on FB.

Submarine L55 in the dock at the Kronstadt Marine Plant in 1928
HMS L55 was a British L class submarine built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Clyde. She was laid down on 21 September 1917 and was commissioned on 19 December 1918.
In 1919, the L55 operating in the intervention against Soviet Russia and on June 4 was sunk in battle with the destroyers Azard and Gavriil. In 1926, the submarine was discovered, in 1928 it was raised and by 1931 it was repaired and put into operation of the Soviet Navy under the same name (Л-55 in Russian spelling). In 1939 she was transferred to a training submarine. During the war it was used as a charging station for other submarines.
After raised the submarine, the bodies of 38 crew members were discovered, who were sent to England. Prior to this, the British press denied the victims of the sinking of the submarine.
P.S. The rise of the L55 was carried out by the salvage ship Kommuna, operating in the Russian fleet from 1915 to the present.

 

[guest0001]

 

[guest0001]

 

[morris]

I hope the local politbureau won't object to taking up BravoZulus' previous thread. It's just an amazing story imho, so I wanted to share more details of the story, I stole on FB.

Submarine L55 in the dock at the Kronstadt Marine Plant in 1928
HMS L55 was a British L class submarine built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Clyde. She was laid down on 21 September 1917 and was commissioned on 19 December 1918.
In 1919, the L55 operating in the intervention against Soviet Russia and on June 4 was sunk in battle with the destroyers Azard and Gavriil. In 1926, the submarine was discovered, in 1928 it was raised and by 1931 it was repaired and put into operation of the Soviet Navy under the same name (Л-55 in Russian spelling). In 1939 she was transferred to a training submarine. During the war it was used as a charging station for other submarines.
After raised the submarine, the bodies of 38 crew members were discovered, who were sent to England. Prior to this, the British press denied the victims of the sinking of the submarine.
P.S. The rise of the L55 was carried out by the salvage ship Kommuna, operating in the Russian fleet from 1915 to the present.

I have posted the story of L55 with photos and documents somewhere but can't find it now.
Here are some more pictures from my computer.