British Sailors guarding damaged locomotives, Russia, c.1918-19
Here we see two British sailors guarding a damaged train near Soroka, on the Murmansk-Archangel railway. The trains had been damaged by retreating bolsheviks, before the area fell to the British advancing south along the railway. Soroka, now known as Belomorsk, is a small town where the Soroka River flows into the White Sea, and was on the only land route linking the Allied bases at Murmansk and Archangel.
Churchill's Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia 1918-1920, Clifford Kinvig. A fascinating look at a little known British campaign, the intervention in Russian in 1918-1920 that began as an attempt to reopen the Eastern Front of the First World War and turned into an attack on the Bolshevik regime. Although the British intervention was part of a wider international campaign, Britain, and Churchill in particular, played a key role in prolonging the campaign. [
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