THE NORTH RUSSIA EXPEDITION

Crewed by Lts Furlong and Topham, DH4 A7919 was flown on a long reconnaissance on 18 August 1918, during which they strafed a locomotive. VIA C. HUSTON Following the October revolution of 1917 that overthrew the Russian provisional government and the subsequent seizure of power by the Bolsheviks, a separate peace was negotiated with Germany. In part to secure stockpiles of war materiel that had been shipped to the Tsarist forces and to prevent German use of Russian Arctic ports