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Kodish, 41, 44, 56, 61–73, 109, 148. See also Emtsa/Seletskoye front

  Kokumin, 179

  Kola, 3

  Kolchak, Alexander: coup, 127; as head of government, 185, 206, 208, 219–21, 249; and Kolchak government, 200–201, 240, 245, 257, 295n31; leaving Omsk, 238, 243, 254, 258; loses Allied support, 143, 242, 244, 246–47, 260; relations with Cossacks, 182, 286–87, 209, 212; use of railroad, 53, 253

  Komasrek, John, 91

  Kooyers, Fred, 66–67, 71, 119

  Koskogor, 106

  Koslovsky, Mattius, 58

  Kotlas, 29, 74–75, 89, 102, 143, 249

  Kozakov, Alexander, 81, 140

  Kraefski, 173–74, 213–15

  Krakovetsky, Colonel, 246, 248–49

  Krasnaya Retchko, 176, 182, 184

  Krasnoyarsk, 159, 254

  Krieger, H., 221, 226

  Kronstadka, 212

  Krovolets, 222

  Kudzba, Peter, 78

  Kulikoff, 107

  Kuna, Private, 95

  Kurgomen, 141

  Kuzmin, General, 54

  Kwasniewski, Ignacy, 34

  Kyapeselga, 137

  Kylevenga, 51

  LaBeaux, Alex, 262

  Ladovich, Nikodem, 101

  Lake Baikal, xxv, 158, 209, 239, 244, 253

  Lake Onega, 134, 137

  Lansing, Robert, xxviii–xxix, 115, 158–59

  Larkin, Edward, 182

  Laurance, Keith P., 35

  Laursen, Jens, 57, 279n36

  Lavoi, Colonel, 45

  Lawes, A.L., 12

  Lawrie, N.A., 54–55

  Lazo, Sergei, 227

  League of Nations, 265

  Lee, H.W., 241

  Leitch, Joseph D., 240

  Leitzel, Glenn, 57, 279n36

  Lenin, Vladimir, xxi

  Lennon, Charles, 33–68

  Levy, Colonel, 73

  Lewis, Charles, 27

  Liavla, 106

  Liberberg, Sam, 213

  lice, 25, 66, 71

  liquor, 210–11, 292n17; British problems, 27, 66–67, 70–71; vodka, 194–95

  Lockhart, Bruce, 266

  Logan, 167–68

  London, 19–20, 30, 116, 121, 124, 133, 140

  Long, James, 246

  Longley, Dr. Jonas, 26–27

  Lopatin, Mr., 200

  Lorimer, Lewis, 228, 230

  Loring, Sylvester, 193, 218–20

  Loughran, Joseph, 261

  Lucas, Colonel, 40–41, 106, 278n24; and Ironside, 42, 54, 70–71

  Lunsford, Emmet, 227

  Lutheran Cemetery, Vladivostok, 163

  Luvov, 154

  Lyttle, Alfred, 80

  Macalla, Michael, 110, 111, 286n27

  MacArthur, Douglas, 268

  MacMoreland, Edward E., 132–34, 136–37, 289n6

  MacPhail, Hugh D., 94–97, 99

  Maihe River, 222

  Maihe, 221

  Malm, Clarence, 104–5

  Manchuria, 158, 245, 263, 268; railroads in, 206, 253–54, 261

  Manila, 171, 176, 255, 258, 262

  Manock, F.D., 231

  March, Peyton, xxix, 28, 140, 165; against intervention, 21, 263–64; supports Graves, 167, 241

  Marinsk, 159

  Marousheffsky, Vladimir, 124, 127

  Marriott, Fred, 84, 85

  Martin, Hugh, 5

  Masaryk, Thomas, xxiii–xxiv

  Maselskaya attack, 134–35

  Mastin, Merrill, 262

  May, Albert E., 33, 35–36, 44, 121

  Maybaum, Harold, 119

  Maynard, Sir C., 7–9, 133, 137, 143

  McConville, Edward, 55

  McCrokey, B.B., 260–61

  McCulley, Newton, 126–27, 266, 288n51

  Mc-Curdy, Ray, 80

  McLaughlin, Frank S., 38

  Mead, Harry, 91, 94–95, 97

  medicine, 173, 177; Allied hospitals, 87–88, 109, 254, 283n49; Archangel hospitals, 26–28, 129; doctors, 81–82, 96, 104, 112, 119, 229, 254; in the field, 55, 58, 81–82, 84, 89, 210–11, 228–29; influenza, xi, 18, 23, 25–28, 32, 52, 70, 76, 82, 90–91, 119, 122, 128, 196; Red Cross, 247, 251–56; typhus trains, 253–54; at Ust Padenga and on retreat, 96, 98–101; venereal disease, 128–29, 196; at Verkne-Udinsk, 209

  Medvyejya Gora, 137

  Meister, Emanuel, 63

  Mejak, General, 210

  Mejnodskaya, 66, 72

  Melochofski, General, 84, 86

  Merrick, Walter, 38

  Merritt, 166, 237

  Mertens, Edward, 63

  Meuse Argonne National Cemetery, 147

  Michael Kace, 49

  Miller, E., 127, 144–45, 149

  Miller, George, 247

  Miller, Henry, 154

  Miller, Russell, 248

  Miller, William, 216

  Minsk, 203

  Missovaya (Mysovaya), 206, 245

  Moduski battery, 11

  Monclay, Major, 55

  Montgomery, A., 134

  Montgomery, John, 260

  Moore, Albert, 101

  Moore, Forrest, 223, 225

  Moore, Joel, 26, 53, 58, 79, 142, 276n17; Pinega front, 105–7, 109–10; railroad front, 31, 35–36

  Moore, Sylvester, 228

  morale, 44, 56, 88, 104

  Morovsky, Colonel, 246, 249

  Morris, John, 80

  Morris, Julius, 262

  Morris, Roland, 167, 242–44

  Morrow, Charles H., 166, 109, 240, 258; conflict with Semenov, 210–11, 245, 260–61

  Moscow, xxi, 12, 118, 126, 186, 249

  Mount Vernon, 263

  Mowat, Ollie, 97

  MuKheene, 259

  Murafski, General, 86

  Murmansk Soviet, 4, 6–8, 113

  Murmansk, 48, 99, 126, 155, 263, 272n2; early Allied presence, 3–10, 12; Americans in, 131–38; port of, 23, 25, 28, 113, 141–42; withdrawal, 144–46. See also Maynard

  Murmansk-Petrograd railroad, 4, 29, 131–38, 145

  music, 130, 164, 182, 195–96, 237

  mutiny, xxvi, 53, 146; American, 45, 56, 88; British, 44–45, 89, 123; French, 43, 45; Kalmykof, 183–84; White Russian, 87–88, 125–26, 142–43, 238

  Nagasaki, Japan, xxi, 161, 166, 157–58

  Nagoya, 25–26, 76

  Nees, Sergeant, 95

  Negake, William, 58

  Nelson, H.E., 163

  New Russian Valley, 237

  Newcastle-On-Tyne, England, 22–23

  Nicholas II, xix, xxii, xxv, 154, 258

  Nichols, J. Brooks, 21, 37, 44, 66, 105, 120

  Nicholson, W.A., 163

  Niemi, Matthew, 36

  Nikolaevsk, 203

  Nikolsk, xxiv, 163, 172–73; battle, 202, 206–8

  Nizhni Gora, 94–95

  Nizhni-Tiomski, 77

  Novitskaya, 223–24, 233–34

  Novo Nezhino, 219, 228–31, 237–38, 258

  O’Dea, Pat, 209

  Obozerskaya, 29, 49–51, 60–61; in Bolshie-Ozerki battle, 53–55, 59; Force B destination, 13–14, 76; Ironside in, 40–42; part of railroad front, 31–34, 39, 44–45

  Odjard, Otto, 90–91, 94–98

  Ogden, Miss, 105

  Oi, General, 175–76, 178, 180, 240–41, 245

  Olga Bay, 197

  Olga County, 208, 221, 241–42, 301n9

  Olga, Lady, 84

  Omsk, xxiv, 181, 268; evacuation of, 243, 246; Graves visits, 242, 244; headquarters of Kolchak government, 143, 159, 185, 198; Red Cross in, 253–54

  Onega force, 29, 46–59, 117, 142; December offensive, 41–42; mission, 31, 92, 102

  Onega River, 44, 51, 49

  Osuna, A.L., 163

  Otaru, Japan, 169

  Oudemuller, John, 28

  Packard, Laurance, 169

  Palo Alto, California, 252

  Papauf, Dr., 118–19

  Parker, William, 135

  Parrish, Silver, 75, 79, 81–82, 86, 88

  Patterson, Frederick, 135
/>   Paulsen, George, 122–23

  Pawlak, Joseph, 87

  Pechinko, General, 210

  Peking, 261

  Pellegrom, H.H., 49, 56, 58

  Pendleton, L.L., 220

  Pepeliaev, Victor, 262

  Perm, 210, 254

  Perschke, Dewey, 14, 28, 126, 292n4

  Pershing, John J., 20, 104, 122, 132–33

  Peterson, Augustus, 278n21

  Petrograd, 249; as capital, xxi, 3, 7, 49, 118, 157; orphans, 255–56; railroad terminal, 155

  Petrovka, 231, 237

  Petrozavodsk, 134–35

  Philippines, 221, 262

  Phillips, Clifford, 49–50, 55, 57–58

  Phillips, Karl, 230

  Pilanski, Alex, 85

  Pinega front, 40, 56, 102–12, 117

  Pinega River, 102, 111

  Pinega Valley, 103

  Piryatino, 235

  Pitts, Colonel, 69–72

  Pitts, Jay, 105

  Plesetskaya, 40; objective of attacks, 34, 37–38, 51, 92, 106; as Soviet base, 53, 61, 102

  Pless, 77

  Polar Bear Monument, 147–48

  Polar Bears: 339th Infantry Regiment, 16, 146–48; 31st Infantry Regiment, 239

  Polish troops, 13, 15, 52, 57–58, 76–77

  Poole, Dewitt, xxv, 126

  Poole, F.C., 6, 9, 11, 13–14, 34, 37, 40, 90, 287n40; creates controversy, 114–16, 124–27; military plan, 12, 16, 29–32, 51, 75–76, 89

  Popov, 137

  Posolskaya, 255, 259–61, 268

  Posyet, 186

  Potapof, Colonel, 115

  Pouchega, 79, 282n14

  Powers, John, 200

  Powers, Ralph, 96

  Priluka, 105–6

  Primm, Clarence J., 105

  Primorskaya, 186

  Prince, Arthur, 87–88

  Prince, Eugene, 44

  Prince, Henry, 43, 88

  prisoners, ix, 6, 38, 92; Allied, 46; American, xiii, 57, 68, 223–25, 233, 261; Austro-German (Hungarian), 164, 176, 180–82, 195, 261, 263; Bolshevik, 15, 51, 68, 73, 123, 180, 217, 253; Cossack treatment of, 183, 206–7, 217; Czech, xxiii; exchange of, 46, 68, 233, 277n52–54; execution of, 217, 249, 261; German, 4; Hungarian, xxiii; in Khabarovsk prison camp, 182; orchestra, 182, 196; Rozanov, 248–49; Russian, 4, 13, 114–15, 232; at Russian Island, 195; Semenov’s troops, 260

  Prokrofka, 176

  Puiya, 91

  Pyratino, 189

  Railroad Agreement, 205–9, 219–20

  railroad force, 32–45, 66–67, 91, 102, 109, 141; at Bolshie Ozerkie, 53–55; supporting other fronts, 57, 60, 93

  Railway Advisory Commission, xx

  Ramatowski, Josef, 278n21

  Rapp, Sergeant, 95

  Rasmussen, Roy, 50–52, 58

  Rawlinson, Lord, 127, 143

  Ray, Robert, 92

  Razdolnoye, 172, 181, 201, 213, 262

  Red Cross, xxi, 18–19; casualties, 182–183; entertaining troops, 127, 130; with troops in North Russia, 5, 24, 46, 69, 117; Siberia, 180, 251–56, 261–62

  Redmund, Nathan, 54

  Reed, Eastland, 223

  Reed, Jesse, 224–25

  Reese, Gordon B., 33

  Reeves, Herbert, 224

  Replacement Battalion, 192, 262

  replacements, 82

  reports on events, 116, 120

  Reynolds, Private, 194

  Rice, Montgomery, 212

  Richards, Laird, 200, 221–22

  Richardson, Eugene, 50

  Richardson, Sam, 229

  Richardson, Wilds P., 133, 137–38, 141, 146; arrives to replace Stewart, 59, 127, 134

  Rickert, Albert F., 27

  Ringgenberg, Charlie B., 14

  Ritcher, Edward, 50

  Robbins, Carl, 260

  Roberts, Daniel, 87

  Roberts, Kenneth, 167–68, 194, 199, 269, 292n10

  Roberts, William A., 216

  Roberts, William, 226

  Robins, Raymond, xxi, 251–52

  Robinson, O.P., 167, 192, 194, 199, 218–19, 232, 240–41

  Rodney, Albert, 238

  Rodvinskaya, 91–92

  Rogers, Yates, 96

  Rohrer, Private, 228

  romance, 84, 86, 128–29, 196, 261

  Romanovka, 219, 221, 225–30, 299n35

  Romanovsky, Lieutenant General, 248

  Root Commission, xx

  Rose, Benny, 101

  Rowland, Theodore Williams, 247

  Royal Air Force (RAF), 32, 80, 96, 98, 140, 144. See also air

  Royal Scots, 92, 101; on Dvina, 76–77, 82; with Force D, 62, 64, 66; at Toulgas, 85–87

  Rozanov, S.N., 186, 244, 246–47, 249

  Rubanovitch, Private, 211–12

  Ruggles, J.A., 8

  Rumans, Gilpin S., 189–223

  Russell, F.H., 92

  Russian Island, 252, 254; orphanage, 255; prison compound, 195; Russian cadets, 248

  Russian Railway Service Corps (RRSC), xx, 153–61, 291n20; frustration of, 201, 253, 255; interference with, 179, 206, 210

  Russian railway workers, 134

  Russian revolution, xix, 4, 103, 124, 155,

  Russian rifles, 21

  Ruth, Frank, 87

  Ryal, Mr., 57, 279n36

  Ryan, Albert, 244–45

  Ryan, Charles B., 62, 72

  Saari, Edward J., 91

  Sadleir-Jackson, L.W., 140

  sailors, Soviet, 4, 14, 118

  Salvation Army, 256

  Samuschenko, Ivan, 224–25, 233

  San Francisco, 155–56, 165–67, 255

  sanitary facilities, 22, 112, 195, 202; home, 61, 91; Murmansk, 3; sanitary train, 18, 254; troop ships, 25

  Sapp, Frank, 57

  Sargent, Frederick H., 166, 187, 222, 240

  Savada, John, 85

  Scheulke, William, 278n21

  Scheunerman, Sergeant, 63

  Schlicter, Gustav, 227

  Schroeder, Herbert, 78

  Schumann, Adolph, 92

  Schurter, Alphia, 236

  Scott, Perry C., 37

  Scroggs, Captain, 258

  Seletskoye force, 38, 41–42, 61–73, 80, 279n1; and Force B, 13, 15; mission, 31, 46, 59, 92, 102; mutiny, 44–45, 142. See also Kodish

  Seletskoye, 33

  self-inflicted wounds, 122–23

  Seltso, 78–79, 81, 282n25

  Semenov, Gregorii, xxv–xxvi, 263, 269; branded barbarian, 186, 209, 217; Japanese support, 185, 209, 249; and Trans-Siberian Railroad, 158, 160, 205, 207, 255; troubles with Americans, 210, 244–45, 259–61

  Serbia, 11, 77

  Setti, Comrade, 224–25

  Shackleton boots, 44, 56, 99, 106

  Shackleton, Ernest, 21

  Shamotulski, Major, 243

  Shaposhnikoff, Colonel, 103, 104

  Shedko, Vasily, 224

  Sheehan, John J., 136

  Shenkursk, 79, 82; arrival in, 77, 91–92; retreat to, 95–98

  Shepard, F.C., 225

  Sheridan, 167, 258

  Sherman, 166

  Shevogari, 94, 98–99, 160

  Shiskin, Major, 49

  Shkotova, 219–23, 229–30, 232, 237–38, 258

  Shmakovka, 202, 213

  Shred Makharenga, 64, 68, 73

  Sickles, Floyd, 40

  Silkaitis, Frank, 50

  Simonton, Willard, 199–200

  Simpson, Charles, 19, 25

  Siplon, James, 19

  Sitsa, 219, 225, 230

  Skiel, Colonel, 87

  Slavo British Allied Legion, 64, 91–92; with Poole’s original forces, 13, 32, 77; poor performance, 72–73, 125

  Slavyansk, 186

  Smelkoff, 107

  Smith, Albert, 78, 87

  Smith, George, 95

  Smith, Wilbur, 100

  Smolny Quay, 28, 30

  Soczkoski, Anthony, 34

  Sokol, Philip, 34

  Solombola, 26, 114, 128

  Solovetski Island,
115

  Somali, 24–26

  Soroka, 133–34, 136–38

  South Bend, 262

  Spasskoye, North Russia, 97

  Spasskoye, Siberia: described, 201–2; and railroad, 206, 209, 213, 216; as Thirty-first Infantry post, 181, 193; as Twenty-seventh Infantry post, 176, 193, 258; U.S.-Allied relations in, 187, 211–12, 243

  Speicher, Elmer, 101

  Sperling, Benjamin, 243–44

  Sprigg, Rodney, 169, 192–93

  Springer, Ralph, 55

  SS Plattsburg, 18

  SS President Grant, 146

  SS President Roosevelt, 147

  St. Paul, Minnesota, 156

  St. Pierre des Corps, 133

  Stalin, Joseph, xxiii

  Stalinski, Julius, 121

  Staripalov, Colonel, 243, 245

  Stark, Private, 105

  Steele, Harry, 93, 160

  Stephans, 10

  Stevens, Floyd, 91

  Stevens, John F., 154–55, 157–58, 179, 210

  Stewart, George E., 61, 71–73, 123; as commander, 20, 28, 34, 88, 115, 117, 120, 122, 127, 129; subordinate to British, 29, 40, 105, 107, 116, 126

  Stier, Victor, 94–95, 284n18

  Stoner, George W., 105

  Strakey, George, 227

  Styer, Henry, 240–41; as AEF commander, 166, 170–73, 178; as Twenty-seventh Infantry commander, 180–81, 184

  submarines, xix, 9, 19, 24

  Suchan mine area, 217–31, 268; Allies guard mines, 181, 193, 204, 206, 208; Allied offensive in Suchan valley, 232–39; unrest in, 189–90, 246

  Suchan River, 235

  suicide, 110–11, 122

  Summers, Maddin, xxvii, 251–52

  Supply Company, 44, 66, 120

  Sutherland, Colonel, 125; commanding railroad force, 33, 36, 40, 65

  Svetlanskaya Street, Vladivostok, 191

  Sviyagino, 173–74, 202, 211–12, 214–15

  Sweet, Earl, 101

  Swihart, Russell, 195

  Syrovy, Jan, xxv–xxvi

  Syska, Frank, 100

  Szymanski, Louis, 92

  USS South Dakota, 164

  Tahe, 225

  Tarasevo, 64, 73

  Taylor, Otto, 64

  Tethue, 197, 241, 301n9

  Teusler, Rudolf, 252, 254–55

  Thirty-first Infantry Regiment: from Philippines, 166, 170, 173–74, 177; Siberian locations, 181, 193, 195, 201–2, 239–40, 243; Suchan mines, 193, 204, 218, 220–38, 258; with U.S. Navy, 236, 241–42; withdrawal, 261–62, 266

  Thomas, 156–57, 167, 262

  Thomas, Lowell, 20

  Thornhill, C.J.N., 48

  Tiagra, 14–15, 62

  Tigrovia, 219

  Tolstoy, 91

  Tommie, Homer, 260

  Toornman, John, 22, 103, 108–12; battle of Karpogora, 104–5

  Topsa, 77

  Toulgas, 81–82, 141; battle of, 83–86

  training, 13, 14, 17, 42, 166; in England, 20–21, 24

  Trammel, Dausie, 101

  Trans-Siberian Railroad, 53, 163, 175, 210, 204, 238; and Czechs, xx, xxii–xxiv, 4, 13; Karachun, 233; Posolskaya, 259–60; Railroad Agreement, 206–17, 243; Red Cross, 253; Russian Railway Service Corps, 153–61; Suchan, 219; Ussuri line, 172–73, 177

 

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