When the British, American, and French interventionists landed in Archangel in August 1918, they set about creating a so-called "loyal Russian army" with which they hoped to carry out their plans in the fight against Soviet power in Northern Russia. To this end, they forcibly conscripted the entire adult male population of the occupied areas into the White Army. But the mobilized soldiers did not want to fight against their class brothers, rose up against their oppressors and went to the Red Army with weapons in their hands. So, on the night of July 20-21, 1919, soldiers of the 5th Northern White Guard Regiment rebelled in the village of Chuguevo, who arrested the officers and went over to the side of the Soviet power1 . A former soldier of the 3rd Northern Regiment of the White P. P. Ivontsin said that part of them, having arrested British officers near d. Tulgas, did the same 2 . And in July 1919, there was an uprising in the Dyer battalion 3, formed by the British in Arkhangelsk in the spring of 1919, mainly from Red Army prisoners of war who were in the provincial prison. The reasons that forced the interventionists to take this extreme step were the heavy losses they suffered at the front and the lack of reinforcements. An English correspondent wrote about this in The Times on July 25, 1919: "A few months ago, when our command was in need of soldiers, and no fresh troops were sent from England, General Ironside decided to talk these prisoners to reason, turn them away from their mistakes, make them loyal soldiers and persuade them to fight against their former comrades... " 4. The former prisoners were brought together in a battalion, they were dressed in English military uniforms, they were given money and food allowances on the same grounds as British soldiers. Command positions in the battalion were held by British and Russian officers. For several weeks, the battalion underwent military training, and then it was assigned to A review was held in Arkhangelsk, ... Read more