Name: A Sea Of Grass : The Royal Navy On The Russian Steppe during WW1
Uploaded: 2025-06-24T17:00:00+00:00
Duration: 10 min 49 s
Description: After the western front became bogged down in the trenches there was not much that the Royal Naval Armoured Card Division could do there. The squadrons got dispersed to were they could be more useful.

3 months ago

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After the western front became bogged down in the trenches there was not much that the Royal Naval Armoured Card Division could do there. The squadrons got dispersed to were they could be more useful. Some ended up at Gallipoli. Some ended up in Africa, but a young and ambitious naval officer called Commander Oliver Locker Lampson took his squadrons out to Russia to fight on the Eastern Front.

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