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White Russian Awards
Author: Ray Brough ISBN 1-871085-08-XRating:
(for the postal historian of the intervention)
This is again one for the specialist postal historian but this time those with an interest in the Intervention Forces and in particular those of The British Crown. This work lists all the awards made by the white Russian forces to British and empire servicemen, it also provides a cross reference for all British awards related to the intervention period together with the London Gazette references.
A second part of the book provides a list of all the Commonwealth war graves and cemeteries inside Russia with a roll of honour and identification of the servicemen buried there.
Whilst not strictly philatelic this book is a useful reference if you collect the mail of the Intervention Forces could well provide information on correspondents whose mail is in your collection. Again if it is your period or interest the book is great, but as the philatelic link depends on your collection it only gets a
Reviewers Note: If anyone in the UK is interested I hope to be in St. Petersburg at the end March or beginning April and can check the main bookshops for a copy if you want one. Mail me at Rossiya@bsrp.org