Mr Drake goes to Siberia part 4: in Ekaterinburg with the new Russian army

After their extended stay in Omsk, the 1/9th Hampshires were ordered to travel west to Ekaterinburg at the foot of the Urals mountain range where the continents of Europe and Asia meet. They arrived in May 1919. Ekaterinburg was the city where the Bolsheviks had executed Tsar Nicholas II and his family the year before. […]