Entente Powers intervention in Russia during World War 1. Slate identifies Commander of British Forces General Henry Owen Knox. (Research indicates he was an honorary Brigadier General circa 1918-19, and may have been the ranking officer with British Forces aboard ship while en route to Russia.) He smokes a cigarette and talks with another British officer on the ship. (Note: the Commander of the British mission in in Russia during the Allied intervention was Major-General Alfred Knox.) (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The President and members of the local Council (Zemstvo) in Vladivostok, Russia, during Russian Civil War (and World War 1). The chief Justice and members of the Supreme Court of Siberia, pose with U.S. Major General William S Graves, Commamnder of American Forces in Siberia.
Eastern terminal of the Trans-Siberian railway. Various views of the railroad terminal building in Vladivostok, Russia, during Russian Civil War and World War I. Soldiers and travelers stand on the station steps. A horse-drawn carriage arrives at the building. An American Army officer comes out of the train station. A funeral cortege with elaborate carriage drawn by team of horses, and mourners walking behind. An electric street car on a street, and an open automobile, both passing several horse-drawn wagons. Horse-drawn carriages pass Czech soldiers escorting German prisoners along a street.
The central railroad station in Vladivostok, Siberia, Russia, during the Allied Intervention there in World War 1, and during Russian Civil War. People are going about their business. Horse-drawn wagons move on the street and people leave and enter the train station. A group of American soldiers stands on the building steps, along with several Czech troops. Next, the American soldiers are no longer seen, and men, women, and children are seen in front of the station building and crossing the street. Scene shifts to a funeral procession making its way along Svetlanskaya street. The coffin is carried in an elaborate carriage pulled by two horses covered in black blankets. What appear to be Russian Orthodox clergy, lead the way. Men in overcoats and Formal Navy-style hats accompany the cortege. A small group of mourners walk behind. A horse-drawn carriage passes the procession. View along the street shows a tram or streetcar or trolley going uphill followed by a solitary automobile. The street scene is dominated by horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians. A parked car is seen. A group of Bolshevik prisoners walk along the street under White Russian guard.
An Italian Navy Captain standing with a civilian and a colonel of the Italian Alpini (probably Colonnello Fossini Camossi, commander of the Italian Corpo di spedizione italiano in Estremo Oriente, that came to Vladivostok October 17, 1918, on its way to Manchuria, to guard the Tran-Siberian railway). The Navy Captain takes a paper from his coat and discusses contents with the Colonel. Brief view of a squad of Italian soldiers as they present arms, order arms, and assume parade rest, while standing on the sidewalk.
Japanese troops in Vladivostok, during Russian Civil War and World War 1. Opening scene shows Japanese soldiers in a bayonet sparring exercise using wooden rifles and Samurai style protective gear. They engage each other in pairs. Next scene shows Japanese soldiers in front of railroad cars serving as their housing. Some of them are cooking food. View along the rail platform where many Japanese soldiers are walking about. A Japanese soldier is seen inside on of the boxcars, smoking a cigar. Several others are seen inside their boxcar home, where they have a stove to heat it. A soldier stands guard atop war material stacked in low open rail cars. Views of vast rail yards filled with train loads of supplies of all kinds. Smoke issuing from steam locomotives in the distance. Another view of boxcars used as "barracks" for troops. Camera pans over the rail yards.