Siberia Expedition Diary 03

This diary was kept by Elkington while he served in the Canadian Expedition Force (Siberia) who were mobilized alongside a dozen Allied armies in a bid to defeat Lenin’s Bolsheviks. It begins on December 26th, 1918 when Elkington departed from Victoria, B.C. with the 16th Field Ambulance C.E.F Siberia and details his experiences during their expedition to and Vladivostok in Russia and their time fighting the Bolsheviks with an international team. Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Henry William Elkington, M.D. served during World War I and II with the Canadian Army Medical Corps, the Royal Army Medical Corps, and the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Elkington was also part of the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force (C.S.E.F.) sent to Vladivostok during the Russian Revolution.