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Description: | An incomplete ts transcription of a memoir (5pp) concerning his service with the Royal Navy Armoured Car Division, written retrospectively (exact date unknown) and entitled ‘My Experiences in Russia’, 1915 - 1919, describing his treacherous voyage from Liverpool to Archangel, his impressions of the different nationalities, landscapes and weather conditions he encountered during his entraining to Moscow and then the Caucasian Mountains, also commenting on the fighting that he participated in as well as providing an eyewitness account of the tense political and social climate that surrounded the outbreak of the Russian Revolution (February 1917), including details of the deteriorating morale within the Russian Army as well as the disorder and unrest that spread throughout the rest of the country which was in his opinion compounded by Bolshevik agitators, the abdication of the Tsar, inflation, disease and famine; together with a number of ts transcribed newspaper articles (7pp), dated from 1916 to 1918, reporting the events occurring in Russia at this time, complementing his personal account, a ts transcribed letter (1p), written by Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, 17 June 1918, conveying his disappointment in not being able to rejoin his RNACD after his wounding, a photocopy of a Russian propaganda leaflet (1p) and two photographs of him in uniform.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Locker-Lampson February 1917 Royal Navy O Armoured Car Division Russia Revolution | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smith, Wilfred Stanley | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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