1st Tank detachment, 1st Division (three machines) – in minor repair at Taganrog 9th Tank detachment (4 tanks) – forming 11th tank detachment (4 tanks) - forming. At the "English Tank School" at Taganrog - 11 tanks At the Baltic Oil Works at Taganrog: - 16 tanks (in major repair) At Novorossisyk unloading - 11 tanks. 1st Armored Car Battalion (20 Lanchesters/Putilov/Garfords) 2nd Armored Car Battalion (20 same) both a/c BN were split up amongst the armies Don airpark in Ekaterinodar.: Major repair and assembly depot. Navy: Cruiser Kornilov, 5 destroyers, 4 submarines and 20 gunboats. The Cruiser and some gunboat were operational. The rest were damaged for past battles or lacking fuel. Volunteer Army 40,000 down to 24,500) General Mai-Maivsky. Western sector of the South Front. Against the 14th and 13th Red Armies. 1st Volunteer Air Division (supported the 1st Corps) 1st General Alekseev Volunteer A/O (6 DH.9, 6 mixed) 6th Vol. Fighter A/O (8 Sopwith Camels, 4 Nieuports) 8th tank detachment (four tanks) - to Volunteer Army 5th tank detachment (three tanks) - to Volunteer Army Several armored trains 1st Army Corps General Kutepov.: Near Orel against the Red Army 2nd Volunteer A/O (6 DH.9, 6 mixed) 2nd Tank detachment, 1st Division (3 MkV) Kornilov Division Drozdovsky Division Markov Division Composite Division (Alekseev Brigade, Samursky Regt.) Corps artillery (2 lt. batteries) 2nd Army Corps General Slushov. South Caucasus and Crimea against rebels and Greens 7th Volunteer A/O (reforming w/ DH.9a in the Crimea after it was abandoned in the Apr. 1919 rout from Odessa) 13th Division 34th Division 3rd Army Corps General Shilling 2 divisions 5th Cavalry Corps General Yuzefovitch.: Near Chernigov. 3rd Volunteer A/O (8 RE.8, arrived in Oct. from training) 4th tank detachment (4 MkA) 1st Cavalry Division 1st General Alekseev Cavalry Regiment 12th Akhtirsky Hussars Regt. 15th Tartars Lancers Cheringovski Hussars Demi-regiment Pskov Life-Dragoons Squadron 2nd Cavalry Division 3rd Kuban Cavalry Corps General Shukov. 2 Kuban Cossack Divisions Independent Kiev Army Group (9,000) General Bredov. Near Kiev against the 12th Red Army few armored trains 4th , 9th Volunteer A/O (8 RE.8, 4 mixed, each) returned from the British Training Center on the RE.8 in October 3rd Tank detachment, 1st Division (4 tanks) 2nd Cavalry Division (w/ 2nd General Drozdovsky Horse Regiment) 15th Infantry Division The Army of the Don (40,000) General Sidorin, Six infantry and nine cavalry divisions organized into four corps. Divisions were under strength. Near the center of the South Front. Against the 8th and 9th Red Army. Don Aviation Division 1st Don A/O (12 mixed) 3rd Don Fighter A/O (8 camels, 4 Nieuports) 12 or so armored trains 1st Don Cossack Infantry Corps 2nd Aviation A/O (12 mixed) 3 infantry divisions 2nd Don Cossack Corps 4th aviation A/O (12 mixed, late Oct. pulled to train on RE.8) 3 cavalry and 1 infantry divisions 3rd Don Cossack Corps 5th aviation A/O (10 mixed, late Oct. pulled to train on RE.8) 3 cavalry divisions 4th Don Cossack Corps (Mammotov) 6th aviation A/O (10 mixed, late Oct. pulled to train on RE.8) 7th tank detachment (four MkV tanks) 3 cavalry divisions and 1 infantry divisions The Army of Caucasus (14,500) General Baron Wrangel. Near Tsaritsyn. Against the 10th and 11th Red Armies 6th tank detachment (four tanks) - to Caucasian Army (Mk-A?) 10th tank detachment (four tanks) - directed to Tsaritsyn perhaps 6 armored trains 6th Mobile Battalion of Naval Heavy Artillery (120mm self-propelled tractors) 6th and 7th Division as reinforcements, formerly interned in Romania 47th Squadron RAF (12 DH.9, 6 camel, disbanded Oct.) 1st Kuban Air Division 1st Kuban fighter A/O (8 nieuports) 2nd Kuban A/O (8 mixed) 1st Kuban Horse Corps General Pokrovsky 2nd Kuban Horse Corps (Oct. transferred to the Don then Vol. Army) 3rd Kuban Cossack Division (w/ General Kornilov Kuban Cossack Regt.) 4th Kuban Horse Corps Trans-Volga Detachment 1st Caucasian Rifle Division (-).: 3rd Astrakhan Cossack Regiment Independent Lower Volga Detachment (4,000) (Gen. Erdeli) 221st Squadron RAF (12 DH.9, 6 DH.9a, disbanded Aug.) 226th RNAS short-184 seaplanes 5th Volunteer A/O (6 DH.9, 6 mixed) Astrakhan Cossack Division: 3rd Kuban Cossack Division 5th Caucasian Rifle Regiment The Crimea-Azov Army (4,000) 1 infantry division 7th Volunteer A/O (reforming w/ DH.9a in the Crimea after it and the 8th A/O were abandoned in the Apr. 1919 rout from Odessa). Crimea Airpark. Storage of old and assembly of new planes for a training school in Simerfol. More White Armies on the South Front OOB Part 1: Introduction Part 2: General Anton Deniken (Jul-Nov 1919) Part 3: Units in the Siberian Army, 9 May 1919 Back to The Gauntlet No. 21 Table of Contents Back to The Gauntlet List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Craig Martelle Publications This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com