Caucasus and Southern Russıa. Cıvıl War and Western Interventıon 1918-1920

A photograph showing the first British guns arriving in Baku in August 1918, part of the Dunsterforce deployment to defend the city.

This photograph by Ariel Varges, accessed via Wikimedia Commons, documents the first British guns arriving in Baku in August 1918. According to the caption, the guns were brought to prepare the defence of the city and its oil resources. The item is directly relevant to the collection as a visual record of the British Dunsterforce intervention that opposed the Army of Islam during the Baku operations.