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In August 1917 it was renamed the Kornilov Shock Regiment, but after the Kornilov affair its name was changed to 1st Russian or Slavonic Shock Regiment. [3] The "Slavonic" name reflected the fact that the regiment included Czech volunteers from the Russian army's Czechoslovak Legion, who wanted to preserve the unit from being disbanded by the Russian Provisional Government.
In late 1917, the Kornilov Shock Regiment, one of the crack units of the Volunteer Army, was named after him, as well as many other autonomous White Army formations, such as the Kuban Cossack Kornilov Horse Regiment. Kornilov's forces became recognizable for their Totenkopf insignia, which appeared on the regiment's flags, pennants, and ...
Kornilov regiment 2nd lieutenant (podporuchik) shoulder boards. One of the two stars is lost on the right one. Sleeve insignia of the 2nd lieutenant in the People's Army of Komuch. Military ranks and insignia of the White Movement (1918-1922) were based on the former Ranks and insignia of the Imperial Russian Armed Forces. However, there were ...
The shock detachments were recruited from front line troops as well as civilian volunteers, and they also included several all-female Women's Battalions, [1] which had a total strength of about 6,000. [4] The shock battalions were credited for the initial success of the Kerensky offensive during its first few days in July 1917. [5]
On 4 September 1917, Lavr Kornilov transformed the Caucasian Native Cavalry Division into the Caucasian Native Cavalry Corps, [29] by reinforcing it with the 1st Dagestan Regiment and Ossetian units. [30] During the course of the Kornilov affair, the corps was among the units ordered by Kornilov to march on Petrograd. [31]
1st Army Corps (Armed Forces of South Russia) 1st Middle Siberian Corps; 1st Officer General Markov Regiment; 2nd Army Corps (Armed Forces of South Russia) 2nd Steppe Siberian Corps; 3rd Army Corps (Armed Forces of South Russia) 3rd Ural Corps; 4th Eastern Siberian Corps; 5th Pri-Amur Corps
1st Caucasus Army Corps; 1st Daugavgriva Latvian Rifle Regiment; 1st Guards Infantry Division (Russian Empire) 1st Life Guards Rifle Regiment; 1st Neva Infantry Regiment; 2nd Pavlograd Life Hussar Regiment; 4th Kharkov Uhlan Regiment; 4th Vidzeme Latvian Riflemen Regiment; 5th Kaluga Infantry Regiment; 6th Libau Infantry Regiment; 8th Estonia ...
[99] [112] Another unit was the 21st Rifle Division's Independent Cavalry Battalion which wore the orange caps and dolmans, blue cap bands, red breeches, and white piping and cords of the 15th Ukrainian Hussar Regiment however, brown busbys with light blue bags and white metal chin-scales would also have been worn.