Lionel Dunsterville

Lionel Charles Dunsterville

Lionel Charles Dunsterville CB , CSI (* 9. November 1865 in Lausanne , Switzerland ; † 18th March 1946 in Camelot, Torquay , Devon ) was a British officer last major general in the First World War .

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Dunsterville attended United Services College at Westward Ho! , Devonshire . After joining the British Army, he served in India, Waziristan and China.

During the First World War, he led a volunteer expedition brigade of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force , named after him Dunsterforce , from British India through Persia to Baku. The "Dunsterforce" supported the state formed after the overthrow of the Bolsheviks in Baku of the Central Aspic dictatorship against Ottoman troops in the Battle of Baku . The interest in the oil fields on the Caspian Sea played an important role, which Great Britain did not want to leave either to the Ottoman Empire or to Soviet Russia. Dunsterville arrested the ousted Bolshevik members of the Council of People's Deputies of the Baku Commune . On September 14th, however, he had Baku evacuated and left it to the overwhelming Ottoman troops. After taking the city, they massacred the Armenians there. The "Dunsterforce" was commanded after his recall by his successor General William Montgomery Thomson .

Works

The adventures of Dunsterforce , 1920.
Stalky's adventures , 1933.

Web links

http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/dunsterville.htm (English)
http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/58/101058774 (English)
Artin H. Arslanian: Dunsterville's Adventures: A Reappraisal (English) (PDF, 2.34 MB)

Individual evidence

↑ Samuel Menefee Pyeatt: Dunsterville, Lionel Charles (1865-1946) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, May 2011. ( online version accessed on 10 October 2014.)
↑ Wolfdieter Bihl : The Caucasus Policy of the Central Powers: The time of attempted Caucasian statehood , 1992, p. 99 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
^ Tadeusz Swietochowski: Russian Azerbaijan 1905–1920. The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community. P. 141f ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

personal data
SURNAME	Dunsterville, Lionel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dunsterville, Lionel Charles; Dunsterville, LC; Dunsterville, Lionel C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British officer, most recently major general in World War I.
DATE OF BIRTH	November 9, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH	March 18, 1946
Place of death	Camelot, Torquay

[1] Samuel Menefee Pyeatt: Dunsterville, Lionel Charles (1865-1946) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, May 2011. ( online version accessed on 10 October 2014.)

[2] Wolfdieter Bihl : The Caucasus Policy of the Central Powers: The time of attempted Caucasian statehood , 1992, p. 99 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

[3] Tadeusz Swietochowski: Russian Azerbaijan 1905–1920. The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community. P. 141f ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).