Vatjan Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Hi guys,Can any of you tell me what this badge is.Or at least give a translation of the inscription.Thanks in advanceJan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCL Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Your Russian civil War Badge is for theFourth Infantry shock troops division of General Kornilov.Can we see the reverse?Looks good from the front.George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stogieman Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Hi Jan. I cannot help with the ID, but that is surely a very, very beautiful and unusual cross! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCL Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 translation of badge, AKA Badge for the 4th strike infantry division.Top4 inf. Divcenter acrossStrikelower arm.18 june 1917George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe campbell Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 rare and beautiful, jan!show the reverse, please.joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vatjan Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 Thanks guys, it's unfortunately not mine.I'll post a scan of the reverse in the weekendJan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vatjan Posted January 31, 2006 Author Share Posted January 31, 2006 This badge comes from the uniform of a Belgian officer of the famous car-canon regiment that fought with the russians in Russia during WWI. I have no idea how/why he got the badge.reverse: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vatjan Posted January 31, 2006 Author Share Posted January 31, 2006 The officers of this regiment wore the usual Belgian collar insigna but also russian pagone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vatjan Posted January 31, 2006 Author Share Posted January 31, 2006 Thanks to those who helped out.Any other info is of course alwas welcomePagone detail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 Acording to P. Pashkov's 1961 Paris-published "Orders and Badges of the White Armies in the Civil War, 1917-1922"--This regiment was formed in June 1917, composed of 2,000 men in 2 battalions, with 3 machine gun detachments and 2 reconnaissance detachments. On 16 August 1917 "all the Kornilovtsy received Saint George crosses for action on the Southwest Front." So if that is accurate, there should be a St. George ribbon on this uniform.The Regimental commander, a General Dukhonin, was murdered by Bolsheviks at the time of the October Revolution, and most members of the regiment made their way in small groups to the River Don, where senior surviving officer a Colonel Nezhdentsev reformed the Regiment, which became to core of what next became the Volunteer Army. By June 1919 the Regiment had been reinforced to a 3 regiment unit renamed the Kornilov Division.Within that division, the "new" 4th 'Kornilovsky' Shock Regiment was made up of Donets basin coal miners. The Regiment was evacuated from the Crimea to the refugee internment camp at Gallipoli in Turkey, from whence its former personnel dispersed after demobilization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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