Page 11 KORNILOV'S SHOCK DIVISION, 1918-1920. 26 December 1917 (8 January 1918) Alekseev's military organization was renamed the Volunteer Army, and the Slavic Kornilov Shock Regiment joined with it on 30 January (12 February) 1918 and was included in the composition of the 1st Volunteer Division. Before long the regiment anew began to be called "Kornilov Shock". 21 July (3 august) 1919 it expanded out into two regiments (2nd Kornilov was formed from the reserve battalion of Kornilov shock regiment); in September in the Kuban both regiments, and also the newly formed on 27 august (9 September) 3rd Kornilov Shock Regiment, were formed into "Kornilov Shock Brigade". 14(27) October, after moving to Orel, the brigade was detached from the 1st Volunteer Infantry Division and re-formed into the "Kornilov Shock Division". 10(23) November units from 1st and 2nd Artillery Brigades were ordered to form Kornilov Artillery, reassigned into the composition of the "Kornilov Division". On 22 January (4 February) 1920 the division contained: Headquarters, 1st , 2nd and 3rd Kornilov Shock Regiments, reserve division regiment, reserve battalions for all of the three regiments, Kornilov Independent Mountain-Moslem Horse Demi-regiment Kuban Cossacks), Kornilov Artillery Brigade (Headquarters, 1st General Kornilov light, 2nd and 5th batteries and forming 6th , 7th and 8th batteries), divisional engineer company, divisional transport and infirmary. Division was all Volunteers, up to 1920, from the Russian Army. Evacuation of the Crimea in November 1920 to Gallipoli (Turkey) saw the remains of the Kornilov Infantry units being reformed into the Kornilov Shock Regiment. The artillery – to the Kornilov Artillery Divizion (two batteries made a divizion). Kornilov units were re-deployed to Bulgaria in 1921 and its existence brought to an end in 1922. (Numbers varied greatly in units and were low during the retreats. These chapters tell of the unit's organization and not its numbers, i.e. the Kornilov Division was severely under-strength during the retreat to the Crimea. TH) More White Armies Introduction Uniforms of the White Armies: 1917-1922 Shock Units 1917 Kornilov's Shock Division 1918-1920 General Markov's Officers Division 1919-1920 Partisan Alekeev General Infantry Division 1918-1920 Officer's Rifle General of Drozdovsky Division 1918-1920 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