April 18, 1921. "Grave of Edith Barnett of New York City. An American Red Cross nurse who died in Siberia, Aug. 15, 1919. Monument placed at Tomsk, Siberia on April 18, 1921. Photograph taken on April 19, 1921"

 

Combatants from Battle of Vyazma laid to rest.

Yesterday the bodies of 120 French and Russian soldiers, three women, and three teenage boys were buried with military honors at Vyazma in Russia.  Dignitaries from both countries were present.

Illustration from War and Peace on the battle of Vyazma.

All died there during Napoleon's retreat from Russia, during a battle that occurred there on October 22, 1812.  Conditions were brutally cold during the ceremony, something that would have been familiar to the soldiers themselves.

Lex Anteinternet: January 10, 1920. Gen. Paul Kendall

Lex Anteinternet: January 10, 1920. Germany signs the Protocol and ...:

January 10, 1920. Germany signs the Protocol and the Great War officially ends (except for the U.S.). . .

In Russia, a platoon of American soldiers under Sheridan Wyoming's 2d Lt. Paul Kendall defeated an attack by a Soviet armored train near Posolyskaya, Siberia (entry from WyoHistory.org).  Armored trains had become a strange but big feature of the Russian Civil War.

Kendall had been born in Kansas but raised in Sheridan.  He entered West Point in 1916 and graduated in 1918, due to the shortened class cycle World War One caused.  He received the Distinguished Service Cross for his action in Siberia on this day.

Kendall would go on to a career in the U.S. Army and rose to the rank of Lt. Gen., commanding troops in World War Two and the Korean War.