Archangel Allied Cemetery

Archangel Allied Cemetery

The Archangel Allied Cemetery is a military cemetery in Archangel, Russia, that is under the management of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.[1][2] Amongst the buried or commemorated are Charles Gordon-Lennox, Lord Settrington and Samuel George Pearse, an Australian soldier who received the Victoria Cross during the 1919 North Russia intervention in the Russian Civil War[3] and Canadian Royce Coleman Dyer.

References

  1. ^ Archangel Allied Cemetery Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  2. ^ Archangel Memorial Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  3. ^ Virtual War Memorial Australia

64°33′11″N 40°32′34″E / 64.5530°N 40.5429°E / 64.5530; 40.5429

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