The Allied Intervention - Northern Russia 1918-1920 with Andy Stuart
19 May

Andy Stuart's family connections has lead him to publish three books covering an ancestors experience during the Great war, but his most recent continues the story after 1918, the following is taken fro his website:

Lithuania, 1871. A family flees a pogrom with a precious trinket.
3rd August 1914. Arthur Walton sees the peculiar item the day before he enlists.
April 1919. Britain still has men fighting in North Russia. For some, the war is not over.
Sent by Churchill to protect supplies, now danger of being captured by Bolsheviks,
a relief force is needed.

Arthur and two friends respond to Churchill's call, and are sent to Archangel.
Mission creep, a mutiny and Bolshevik captors takes them deeper into Russia.
The Trans-Siberian Railway controlled by the Czech Legion is the only route out. 
An English governess the key to success.

After months presumed dead they arrive back in Britain.
To be goaled as revolutionaries.

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19 May 2025 20:00