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Monument to the Russian Expeditionary Force in Paris. The following monuments have been dedicated to the memory of the Russian Expeditionary Force: on June 21, 2011, a Russian Expeditionary Force Monument was dedicated, in Paris; in the Marne a monument at the Fort de la Pompelle on September 4, 2010, at the Russian cemetery of Saint-Hilaire-le ...
The Russian Expeditionary Force was a World War I military force sent to France by the Russian Empire. In 1915 the French requested that Russian troops be sent to fight alongside their own army on the Western Front. Initially they asked for 300,000 men, an absurdly high figure, probably based on their assumptions about Russia's 'unlimited ...
Russian Expeditionary Force in France; a World War I military expedition of the Russian Empire Russian Legion; the remains of the unit as a volunteer internationalist force after the withdrawal of Russia from WWI
The Russian Expeditionary Forces in France and the Balkans (Russian: избирательный округ русских экспедиционных войск во Франции и на Балканах) formed an electoral district for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. [1] [2] The constituency had some 20,000 eligible voters. [1]
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Lokhvitsky (Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Ло́хвицкий; 7 October 1868 – 5 November 1933) was a general in the Russian Expeditionary Force in France.
In the First World War, he commanded the 3rd Special Infantry Brigade of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France between July 1916 and May 1917. Between 26 September and 23 November 1917, he was the last Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Empire.
Garnier-Duplessix later led the 37th Division in the Nivelle Offensive of April 1917 where his troops included the 5th Regiment of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France. [9] [10] On 6 October 1917 he was appointed a commander of the Legion of Honour. [11]
Jamie H. Cockfield - With snow on their boots: the tragic Odyssey of the Russian expeditionary force in France in World War I - St Martin Press - New York, 1999; Alain Denizot - Verdun 1914 - 1918 - NEL - Paris, 1996; Elizabeth Greenhalgh - The French Army and the First World War - Cambridge University Press - 2014