Lecture notes for Colonel John Edwards Leckie's lecture on the Murmansk campaign in the Allied Intervention in Russia. Attached is a book on the Evacuation of North Russia, 1919 The Finnish Legion banner and Soviet flag have been in the Canadian War Museum since the mid 1970s. The North Russia Intervention, also known as the Northern Russian Expedition and the Murman Deployment, was part of the Allied Intervention in Russia after the October Revolution. The intervention brought about the involvement of foreign troops in the Russian Civil War on the side of the White movement. The northern campaign lasted from the final months of World War I in 1918 through to September1919. John Edwards Leckie (1872-1950) was born in Quebec in 1872. He was educated at Bishops' College School, Lennoxville, and graduated from the Royal Military College at Kingston in 1893. Leckie served in the Boer War as a Lieutenant, commanding the West Kootenay Troop, Lord Strathcona's Horse (1899-1900), and as a Captain in Canadian Mounted Rifles (1900-1902). He served as the first Commanding Officer of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada (1910 - 1914). During World War I he served in France as a Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the 16th Battalion (1914 - 1916). In 1919, as a Colonel, Leckie commanded the 2nd Reserve Brigade on the Murmansk Front. During World War II he was a cable censor. As a civilian, Leckie practiced engineering in Nova Scotia and New Jersey before coming to Rossland, B.C., in 1897. He worked in the Kootenays in the mining business, in partnership with his brother, R.G.E. Leckie (later General Leckie). In 1910 he moved to Vancouver. He was engaged in exploration and speculation in Mexico, Venezuela, and in Africa, and in 1928 he helped to organize the mineral exploration survey into Hudson's Bay Territory. In 1932-1933 he organized an expedition to Cocos Island to hunt for buried treasure. On his return to Vancouver he acted as a mining consultant. J.E. Leckie died in 1950 in Port Hope, Ontario. «