Allied Intervention in Russia

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The North Russia Campaign and the Allied Intervention in Siberia was the involvement of international troops in the Russian Revolution in Northern Russia, during the final months of World War I in 1918 through 1920.

Their military presence was used by the Bolsheviks as patriotic propaganda in their struggle to win power.

Foreign forces throughout Russia

The following number of foreign soldiers occupied Russia:

• 55,000 Czechs
• 28,000 Japanese (later increased to 70,000)
• 7,500 Americans
• 4,000 Canadians
• 12,000 Poles
• 4,000 Serbs
• 4,000 Romanians
• 2,000 Italians
• 1,600 British
• 760 French^[1]

Each was a separate expedition within the vast geographical range of Russia's western frontier.

• See American Expeditionary Force Siberia for information on the 10,000 American soldiers who were sent to Vladivostok, Russia at the same time.

Eventually all of these country's expeditions ended in failure.

Allied Intervention in North Russia

(aka North Russia Campaign)

• British Army (6th Yorkshire Regiment, Royal Scots Battalion, others?)
• British Navy (plus a detachment of 53 US Navy sailors & officers - including Harold Gunnes - from the USS Olympia during Aug & Sept 1918 only)
• French Army (21st Colonial Battalion)
• Canadian Field Artillery (67th & 68th Batteries of the 16th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery)
• Slavo-British Allied Legion (aka SBAL, anti-Bolshevik forces, included Dyer's Battalion, British trained and led)
• White Russian Army (previously the army of Kerensky's provisional democratic Russian govenrment, anti-Bolshevik, led by General Eugene Miller, a Russian native)
• U.S. Army, American North Russia Expeditionary Force (aka Polar Bear Expedition, 339th Infantry Regiment plus the First Battalion of the 310th Engineers)
• U.S. Army 167th and 168th Railroad Companies (sent to Murmansk to operate the Murmanks to Petrograd line)
• Miscellaneous Allied troops from Poland, Serbia and Italy
• British North Russian Relief Force (arrived in late May 1919 to cover the withdrawal of U.S. and Allied troops)

Allied Intervention in Siberia

• White Russian Army (anti-Bolshevik, led by Adm. Alexander Kolchak)
• Russian Cossacks (anti-Bolshevik, led by Gregorii Semenov and Ivan Kalmykof)
• U.S. Army, American Expeditionary Force Siberia (27th and 31st Infantry Regiments)
• Russian Railway Service Corps (a contingent of U.S. railway workers and managers who accompanied locomotives and rolling stock that the U.S. had originally committed to the Kerensky government for improving the Trans-Siberian Railroad).
• Japanese Army
• Czech Legion
• British Army
• French Army
• Chinese Army