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  • 1919
    Video Recording

    Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- (Reel 19) The episode starts with 'Justice' followed by the badge of the British Intervention Force. The actuality material opens with British troops boarding SS Carlotta at Tilbury docks, in May 1918, and a chaplain holding a service on board. The arrival at the mouth of the River Dvina at Archangel. Brigadier-General L W de V Sadlier-Jackson is greeted on 10th June with the Slav ceremony of bread and salt. Men of the Slavo-British Legion, recruited from Russian gaols. A blurred scene of General Shobelstyn (?) at Kem. Russian pony carts and views of the river. Major-General Maynard with the White Russian commander General Eugene K de Milar (or Miller). British soldiers in the forests with mosquito hoods. (Reel 20) A forest fire. A 4.5-inch howitzer fires by the wagon lines. Graves of men of the Royal Sussex Regiment at Kandalaksha. British troops in greatcoats and fur hats manning trenches in the winter of 1918-1919. A Red Cross ambulance removes wounded during a battle in a snowstorm. British troops on skis and reindeer-drawn sleighs. A Sopwith Camel taking off from the frozen Lake Onega using skids. Tram lines across the frozen river. The icebreaker SS War Dawn delivers ammunition up the river.- A thematic treatment of the British contribution to the North Russian Intervention Force, 1918-1919.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana