Australia and Russia's Civil War: Few Lessons to Be Learned

摘要

The Australian role in the Russian intervention from 1917 to 1920 is perhaps the least known episode in the nation's military history. Jeffrey Grey argued that its obscurity is due to the fact that 'the Australians involved fought as part of imperial, rather than Australian, units', making it difficult to identify individual Australians.~1 Moreover, in the inter-war period, the Australian archives destroyed documents relating to the intervention, including the papers of Captain Ernest Latchford, an Australian officer who served with the British Military Mission in Siberia.