Remember Me? Blogs Files Medals Advanced Search. Page 63 of 77 First Last Jump to page: Results 3, to 3, of Thread: Years Ago Today. Total Awards : 47 Aerial Victories : Thanks Mike, and we have not forgotten your stepping up to the plate when things got difficult, so thanks for that.
Total Awards : 37 Aerial Victories : Going to try a short stint back in the office on Sunday. Hoping all goes well. Now where did I put the bloody typewriter? Whiskey and toilet paper; not necessarily in that order though! MIA but now found. See you on the Dark Side Total Awards : 20 Aerial Victories : Following a Legion victory, the Germans negotiated a truce. On March 3, Russia, controlled by the Bolsheviks, signed the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with Germany in which it gave up, among others, control over Ukraine.
On March 8 Germans reached Bakhmach, an important railroad hub and Legion was in danger of being encircled. The threat was grave because captured legionnaires were summarily executed as traitors of Austria-Hungary. The fights peaked on March Thanks to Legion victory the Germans negotiated a truce, during which Czechoslovak armoured trains could freely pass through Bakhmach railway junction to Chelyabinsk. The Czechoslovak Legion about 42, soldiers during truce set up for escape from Russia via the Trans-Siberian railroad.
Armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary then started to occupy the land without much resistance. Losses of the Legion were: killed, wounded, 41 missing. Estimate of German losses is around dead and hundreds wounded. Similarly to Battle of Zborov or the "Siberian anabasis", the battle of Bakhmach became one of the symbols of the Czechoslovakian Legions and their fight for independence.
Fighting took place over an area which extended from the Mediterranean to Abu Tellul and Mussalabeh on the edge of the Jordan Valley. However, the captured territory was not sufficiently broad to provide a strong enough base for the planned Transjordan operations.
