Lithuanian Siberian Battalion

[1] However, the Entente (mostly France and Great Britain) ordered the creation of national units due to mistrust of the provisional government.

[1] According to the agreement, the Seventh Lithuanian Company (led by Petras Linkevičius) subordinate to the First Polish Rifle Regiment was established on 19 August in Buguruslan.

It also fought at the village of Glumilovka on 3 December, being the first to reach the strategically important city of Belebey later on the same day.

Officer Petras Linkevičius, in accordance with the resolution, began to secretly and slowly demobilize his company.

[2] However, after the White Army under Alexander Kolchak began to lose, Entente forces evacuated.

The battalion was eventually ordered to stay in the Cherepanovo station to cover retreating Entente soldiers.

The rest of the battalion's soldiers were forcefully included in the Red Army's 312th Infantry Regiment.

Flag of the Lithuanian Siberian Battalion, c. 1919
Petras Linkevičius was responsible for organizing and leading the battalion
Steponas Maleris, a battalion officer that died in battle in 1918