10 Minutes to Seaward

A Sea Of Grass : The Royal Navy On The Russian Steppe during WW1


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After the western front became bogged down in the trenches there was not much that the Royal Naval Armoured Card Division could do there. Some ended up at Gallipoli. Some ended up in Africa, but a young and ambitious naval officer called Commander Oliver Locker Lampson took his squadrons out to Russia to fight on the Eastern Front.

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