Hi Guys,

My Great grandfather was with the 24th Siberian Rifles Regiment during WW1 (I think as it's commanding officer) which was based in Khabarovsk in the Far East of Russia.

In 1914, the regiment was sent west to fight the Germans on the Eastern Front, and that was pretty much the last anyone had heard from him (the Russian Revolution and Civil War and later the Sovietisation of Russia made communication with relatives there (from Australia) in subsequent years near impossible - Khabarovsk was closed to foreigners for many, many years).

Anyway, does anyone know of resources, books, websites where I could possible trace the movements of this regiment? My dad and I are trying to find out information about him but unfortunately haven't had much luck so far.

Regards,

Mick

Here, you can find your grand-father division :
http://home.comcast.net/~markconrad/RUSS1914.html#INFANTRY

It was the 6th siberian division of the 5th siberian corps. This division was engaged, in 1914, in the battle of Varsovie-Ivangorod and mostly in the Battle of Lodz ; at the end of the battle, it was this division, when the german 25th reserve corps escaped from russian encirclement, which was defeated and let the corps escape.
A russian map of this fight :
http://militera.lib.ru/h/barsukov_ez2/s44.gif
the 24 cn is your régiment

I don't know if this division was with this corps during all the war, but the 5th siberian corps was engaged with many armies :
-22 oct 1914 - 31 jan 1915 = 1st Army
-12 feb 1915 - 1 sept 1915 = 2nd Army
-18 sept 1915 - 1 feb 1916 = 4th Army
-3 march 1916- 3 apr 1916 = 12th Army
-3 apr 1916 - 1 may 1916 = 6th Army
-20 june 1916 - 1 july 1916 = 8th Army
-1 july 1916 - december 1917= 11th Army

I think the division was engaged in the Bzura -Rawka area between november 1914 and august 1915. After the great retreat, it was on the north of Pripet marsch, maybe in the Baranovichi and after Smorgon areas (4th Army) and briefly in Riga (12th and 6th Armies).
In 1916, the division fought with 8th Army, on the Stochod, and seems to stay in this area till the end.

For russian front, see here (you can read it with a web free translator) :
http://www.grwar.ru/news/news.html
http://www.grwar.ru/regiments/regiments.ht...it_form_id=1508
http://regiment.ru/

Wow - thanks for that. I'll check out those other URLs as well.

Mick