Armed U.S. Army guard patrols as local Russian workers unload bags of flour from cargo ship into horse-drawn carts (Droshkys) at Archangel, Russia, during the Allied North Russia Intervention in World War 1. Carts are driven to the opposite side of the pier where men and women unload them and slide them down narrow planks to women in small boats. Some Russian women pose for the camera, in their boats. View of two small boats laden with flour, being rowed, and also having some sails raised. A woman has some difficulty rowing a dory filled with flour bags. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
As a contingent of U. S. soldiers presents arms, American Red Cross Captain Wynn and U.S. Army Captain, Hall, raise a United States flag and a Red Cross flag over a hospital in Arkhangelsk (Archangel) Russia during the Allied North Russia Intervention of world War 1. Russian nuns (nurses) who staff the hospital, at Troitsky Avenue, near Olga barracks, take part in the ceremony. View of U.S. Army band marching down a street with their instruments as local children and villagers look on. (Note: This flag-raising constituted an act of defiance by U.S. Red Cross and Army medical personnel, since British medical authorities had opposed starting an American hospital in Archangel. It became the first Red Cross Hospital there, that was jointly staffed by Russian and American Red Cross nurses. Captain Wynn,with the American Red Cross, equipped the hospital, and American Army Captain Hall and Lieutenant Kiley administered it.) (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Bolshevik prisoners in Archangel, Russia. Bolshevik prisoners march under guard of U.S. soldiers. These soldiers are of 339th Infantry of American Expedition Forces. Faces of various Bolshevik prisoners. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Saw mill operated by U.S. 310th Engineers in Archangel, Russia during World War 1 time period. Lumbers piled up and bridge in the background. U.S. 310th Engineers of American Expeditionary Forces operate saw mill. Wood piled up. Horse drawn cart loaded with wood. Wood unloaded from cart.
U.S. Brigadier General Wilds P Richardson accompanies British Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside as he decorates soldiers of the American 339th Infantry Regiment in Archangel, Russia, during the Allied North Russia Intervention of World War 1. In change of scene, American infantrymen board a YMCA train where they receive small gifts. The soldiers must jump down from the train, when leaving. Logo of YMCA on side of train. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Troops of the American 339th Infantry Regiment are drawn up in formation on a street in Archangel, Russia, during the Allied Northern Russia intervention, of World War 1, and of Russian Civil War. The Regimental Brass Band is playing while approached by a group of Allied reviewing officers, led by Imperial Russian (White Russian) General Yevgeny-Ludvig Karlovich Miller (also known as EK Miller). The reviewing officers pass in front of the formation, moving away from the camera. Next, British Major General Frederick C. Poole, Commander of the Allied forces, is seen decorating a 339th infantryman. American officers following General Poole, shake hands with the medal recipient, as they pass. (A small Russian boy in the foreground watches all the activities.)