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sdorman120 - Re your question on Russian Troops ww1.

  • marie.eklidvirginmedia.com by marie.eklidvirginmedia.com

    Here is part of an interesting article re Russia and First World War: 1914-1916:

    By December, 1914, the Russian Army had 6,553,000 men. However, they only had 4,652,000 rifles. Untrained troops were ordered into battle without adequate arms or ammunition. "Untrained troops were ordered into battle without adequate arms or ammunition. And because the Russian Army had about one surgeon for every 10,000 men, many wounded of its soldiers died from wounds that would have been treated on the Western Front. With medical staff spread out across a 500 mile front, the likelihood of any Russian soldier receiving any medical treatment was close to zero".

    Tsar Nicholas II decided to replace Grand Duke Nikolaias supreme commander of the Russian Army fighting on the Eastern Front. He was disturbed when he received the following information from General Alexei Brusilov: "In recent battles a third of the men had no rifles. These poor devils had to wait patiently until their comrades fell before their eyes and they could pick up weapons. The army is drowning in its own blood."

    PS The Russian Expeditionary Force (French: Corps Expéditionnaire Russe en France) was a World War I military force sent to France by the Russian Empire. In 1915 the French requested that Russian troops be sent to fight alongside their own army on the Western Front. See link:

    https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=TRhe+Russians+on+the+western+front+ww1&rlz=1C1DSGL_enGB426GB426&oq=TRhe+Russians+on+the+western+front+ww1&aqs=chrome..69i57.7673j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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