Alfred Knox

Sir Alfred William Fortescue Knox (born October 30, 1870 in Ulster , † March 9, 1964 ) was a British officer and later a member of the Conservative Party . He commanded the British military intervention in the Russian Civil War of 1919/20.

After joining the army , Knox served in British India . In 1911 he was appointed military attaché in the Russian Empire . During the First World War he was the Triple Entente's liaison officer with the Russian army . As such, Knox, who spoke fluent Russian, was an eyewitness to the October Revolution and the capture of the Winter Palace by the Bolsheviks on October 25th ^July. / 7th November 1917 ^greg. .

Knox worked closely with the British Ambassador to Russia, George Buchanan , and made several visits to the Eastern Front . He met Elsa Brändström several times and supported her in her efforts to recruit German and Austrian prisoners of war in Siberia.

During the Russian Civil War, his headquarters , like that of the leader of the White Army Kolchak , installed by the Entente , was in Omsk , but hardly intervened in the fighting because Kolchak was unwilling to accept demands made by a Russian constituent assembly after the war went out.

1924 won a seat Knox County Wycombe in the House of Commons for the Conservative Party, which he held until the 1945th

literature

• Alfred Knox: With the Russian Army. 1914-1917. Being chiefly Extracts from the Diary of a Military Attaché. 2 volumes. Hutchinson, London 1921, (digital copies: Volume 1 , Volume 2 ).
• Edwin Erich Dwinger : Between White and Red. The Russian Tragedy 1919–1920. Diederichs, Jena 1930.
• Clifford Kinvig: Churchill's Crusade. The British Invasion of Russia 1918–1920. Hambledon Continuum, London 2006, ISBN 1-85285-477-4 .