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The soldier turned diplomat

Posted by: Tara Finn, Posted on: 11 October 2019 - Categories: Defence and conflict, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
Near the frontline at Zilupe/ Rozenovskaja, Latvia March 1920. From the left to the right: Unknown, Stephen Tallents, a Russian Bolshevik officer, Harold Alexander, officers of the Baltic Landeswehr.

Harold Alexander may be associated with Italy in the Second World War, but his actions in Latvia in 1919 potentially prevented a civil war.

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