ABSTRACT
British intervention in the south preceded that in the north, and will therefore be examined first. The shape that Allied intervention would eventually take to meet the desperate situation in Russia was foreshadowed in a report on recommended policy submitted early in 1918 to the British War Cabinet by General Alfred Knox, then in London. The situation in the Caucasus region of South Russia and in the neighbouring North-west Persian region⏻east of the Turkish border⏻was of extreme interest to Britain. The Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 entirely dominated the situation in Persia until the end of 1917. The Canadian contingent joined others in England drawn from the British, Australian, New Zealand and South African forces, together with a party of fourteen Russian officers and one Persian. The Western Front contingent, including the Canadians, reached Basrah in Mesopotamia on 2nd March.
