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Russian 63d Infantry Division


waldo

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I have the 63d Infantry Division mobilizing into the 7th Army in Odessa in the Aug Sept 1914 time frame. It then turns up in Warsaw in time for the Warsaw-Ivangorod Operation in early Oct. Does anyone know when it transferred from Odessa & arrived in Warsaw?

waldo

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I have the 63d Infantry Division mobilizing into the 7th Army in Odessa in the Aug Sept 1914 time frame. It then turns up in Warsaw in time for the Warsaw-Ivangorod Operation in early Oct. Does anyone know when it transferred from Odessa & arrived in Warsaw?

waldo

If you are talking about October 1914, if the division was at Odessa in September 1914 and turned up in Warsaw in early October, given the state of the Russian railroads and the demands on the system at the beginning of the war, you only have a time span of a few weeks, and it is a wonder that it even made it. Not much of a time span to wonder about, it would seem.

Bob Lembke

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If you are talking about October 1914, if the division was at Odessa in September 1914 and turned up in Warsaw in early October, given the state of the Russian railroads and the demands on the system at the beginning of the war, you only have a time span of a few weeks, and it is a wonder that it even made it. Not much of a time span to wonder about, it would seem.

Bob Lembke

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If you are talking about October 1914, if the division was at Odessa in September 1914 and turned up in Warsaw in early October, given the state of the Russian railroads and the demands on the system at the beginning of the war, you only have a time span of a few weeks, and it is a wonder that it even made it. Not much of a time span to wonder about, it would seem.

Bob Lembke

Bob,

I'm studying the Warsaw-Ivangorod Operation and would like to learn whether the dispatch of the 63d was intended to reinforce the Warsaw front or was directed elsewhere & rerouted in response to the German attack.

I don't know much about the state of Russian RRs but I have read repeatedly that during the opening months of the war, the RRs were able time and again to deliver or reroute corps to arrive in the nick of time at crucial sectors.

waldo

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