Operation Red Trek (Part 1)

Season: 4 Episode: 9

The British campaign in the Baltic 1918–1919 was a part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The codename of the Royal Navy campaign was Operation Red Trek. 

In this episode we hear from Captain Augustus Agar VC DSO RN (1902-03) and his recollections of his part in this great campaign which played a key role in enabling the establishment of the independent states of Estonia and Latvia.

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This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

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SOURCES

The Society of Framlinghamians

Imperial War Museum

VC Online

Ancestry

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Intro music by The Model Folk 

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