AHC: Serbian intervention in Foreign Campaigns

While the scenario posted by the title may sound impossible due to logistics, with a p.o.d. after 28 July 1914, have a minimum of a corps of Serbian or Yugoslav troops serve in foreign campaigns, especially outside Europe [except for Russia and France]. Bonus points if they stay outside Serbia longer.
I will suggest the following:
15-25 August 1914: The Serbian Army suffers a defeat and loses Belgrade. They retreat southwards and counterattack, but fail or gain a pyrrhic victory.
September-December 1914: Serbia gets conquered by Austria-Hungary [with assistance from Bulgaria and other allies]. The Serbian Army is evacuated by ship to Corfu and Malta. With Italian neutrality [to the end of the war] and difficulties in transportation to Russia, the Serbian Army gets sent to the Balkans or the Middle East.
April-December 1915: The reconstructed Serbian Army lands at Gallipoli or the Balkans, but evacuates with some losses after the threat of Bulgarian, Greek, German or Austro-Hungarian [army] intervention.
1916-end of WW1: The Serbian Army is sent to the Middle East or Russia. When WW1 ends [hopefully with a Central Powers victory or a surviving Soviet Union if the Entente wins], the Serbian Army is struck in Russia or the Middle East and refuses to return to a foreign occupied homeland.
What happens? Could the Serbian Army intervene in the Russian Civil War [like the Czech Legions], Japanese or European colonial campaigns [such as the Second Sino-Japanese War or [an alternate] WW2 in Russia?
Perhaps an ultimate scenario is the Serbian Army, after being defeated, getting involved in the Middle Eastern and Russian Theatres of WW1, the Russian Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War or North Africa and the Allied liberation of Europe if things were to proceed like reality. Otherwise, could the Serbian Army be evacuated somewhere else after its 1915 defeat and serve in Russia or the Middle East [in WW1 or WW2, with the latter replaced by Yugoslavian troops in North Africa]?

Defeat of the Serbian Army

In August 1914, the Serbian Army was facing its major nemesis, which was Austria-Hungary. The latter nation was already enraged after a Serbian organization had the emperor's heir and nephew assassinated at Sarajevo slightly more than a month previously and was conducting its revenge by invading Serbia. Many Serbian Army units entered the battlefield in haste and some without supplies, but they would defend their homeland.
Then, the real conflict came to Serbia. Austria-Hungary had mobilised 2 armies and a third was stationed on the Hungarian frontier with the intention to occupy Belgrade. Despite the major offensive being launched through Bosnia, feints across the Danube and Belgrade kept 2 corps on the frontier. [The Austro-Hungarians mobilised their 6th Army faster in this scenario or conducted a quicker and more aggressive attack earlier in the war's first few days.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cer [More or less as in reality, but with weaker Serbian forces.]

Suddenly, on 25 August, the Austro-Hungarian 2nd Army arrived and launched its offensive. Within 5 days, Belgrade was threatened and the remaining troops of the Serbian 2nd Army were recalled. The Serbian counteroffensive against the Austro-Hungarian forces in Bosnia during 1-5 September failed and the Serbian 1st Army was encircled, although it broke out decimated and without supplies. Serbian troops were forced to retreat to Nis and launch a counteroffensive that barely reached Belgrade before its final repulsion through heavy casualties. Bulgaria was preparing to attack and the Ottomans were becoming friendlier to Germany and Austria-Hungary each passing day.

There was a period of almost 2 months of shelling before the next offensive on 5 November 1914. The Austro-Hungarians attacked the reforming Serbian 1st and Uzice Armies and broke out, resulting in Belgrade's fall on 14 November as it was evacuated to avoid facing siege damage and defending an overextended and nearly encircled defence line. By the time, Nish, Serbia's capital since the July Crisis preceding the war and a crucial transportation hub for the Serbian Army, was vulnerable. It also acted as a clearing house for munitions produced at the arsenals in Kragujevac and Valijevo. The Kolubara and Morava Rivers were also outflanked and the Serbian situation was precarious. The next day, Bulgaria launched its surprise night attack on the Serbian Macedonian Army and the Serbs were forced to retreat from the recently captured province, losing 50,000 troops in the process. The 2nd Serbian Army retreated to cover the Serbs fleeing Bulgarian attacks and the intended counteroffensive failed as a consequence, increasing the Serbian retreat. The city of Nish, Kragujevac and the Morava and Timok Provinces were lost by early December. A harsh winter was setting in and although the enemy pursuit might be reduced or slackened on account of weather issues, the long southwards retreat would be complicated in uncomfortably cold, starving and rugged external conditions.

The premise is more or less OTL.

The 1st Serbian Volunteer Division was created from prisoners of war in Russia and fought on the Eastern Front alongside Russia and Romania. It numbered 18,000 in August 1916. By the end of 1916 this would be expanded into a Corps of around 40,000. The Corps would later be transferred to Thessaloniki. It was eventually renamed into the Yugoslav division as a few thousand of its soldiers were actually Croats and Slovenes.

As for the Russian civil war, around 8,000 Serbs and other south Slavs fought on the side of the Whites. A few thousand also fought on the Red side.

Serbian Participation in the Eastern Front

The Serbian Army in February 1916 [one year later if the p.o.d. is in late 1914 or early 1915 as mentioned earlier, this doesn't involve participation at Gallipoli] was decimated and lacking in weapons, having abandoned the supplies during the arduous march to the Albanian coast. During the period, the Serbian Army spent 2 months recuperating while the Entente debated on how to use the Serbian Army. With the reopening of the Berlin- Baghdad Railway through Constantinople, the pro-German attitudes of Greece and the futility of wasting more [non-British] troops in Balkan or Middle Eastern sideshows, it was decided to send the Serbian Army to somewhere far away after its 'resurrection'.

Prime Minister Pasic was shocked at the idea of transporting the entire Serbian Army to Russia. Although a better ally than Italy or France, Russia was the only friendly, powerful and independent Slavic country that would accept the Serbs. The logistics were harsh as passenger liners and cargo ships had to be sent over voyages more than a week long to cold and icy Russian Arctic ports with the troops and supplies followed by a long march through marshy Arctic and Karelian tundra. If lucky, they might stay at Petrograd and Moscow before proceeding to combat sectors in Ukraine by train with adequate shelter and training after this ordeal. That said, he grudgingly accepted as Russia should be more trustworthy to Serbia anyway and the Serbs would fight their main Austro-Hungarian enemy directly without passing through the German trenches or long routes of the Middle East. Shipping through shorter distances was blocked by Central Powers controlling the waterways needed to pass through and the Suez Canal.

After some time, it was finally decided to send the Serbian Army to Russia. The Serbian Army was transported from its temporary refuge on Corfu island to Malta by ship, followed by transportation to France and Britain by ships and rails. Despite passing Italy and France, only several minor units were actually involved in combat within the countries as the Verdun, Somme and Isonzo battles raged before returning to their former organizations for transportation to Russia. After reaching England in the summer of 1916, the Serbs were placed on converted liners and cargo ships for the long voyage to Russia through the icy and freezing Arctic waters feared and despised by the Serbs.

Upon arrival at Archangelsk in the autumn of 1916, the first contingent of Serbian troops was to face the longest, harshest and coldest march of their lives through the Arctic and Karelian tundra to Petrograd via Tikhvin, Volkhov, Petrozavodsk and Novgorod. Others proceeded to Moscow by taking the longer route via uninhabited northern Russia to Volodga, Yaroslavl and Moscow's surroundings before reaching Moscow. After some rest and refit in the major Russian cities before facing combat, the Serbian Army would be flghting with its Slavic brothers against Austria-Hungary for another time. Events such as training, German troops in the east and revolution would impede or cancel some of the originally intended plans.

During the February Revolution, the Serbian troops in the major Russian cities of Petrograd and Moscow received news of the revolution. Although grateful to Russia and the Tsar for their acceptance of them into combat, they preferred the more democratic rights and welfare after revolutionary propaganda, imperial corruption and starvation were observed by the Serbs and the residents of Petrograd.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution]
In the meantime, training and reconstruction of the Serbian Army was underway, with 150,000 rifles, 1500 machine guns, 2500 lighter machine guns, 0.7 million grenades, 200 artillery pieces and 100 mortars. Most of the stuff was sent by ship from Britain, America and France to Russia via Archangelsk and Murmansk after the recent completion of the Murmansk Railroad in the winter of early 1917 [completed earlier in this scenario due to the usage of Serbs in the railroad construction]. The reformed Serbian Army, after the ruins and scatterings of the 1915 retreat and the 1916 combat in the west [France and Italy] and transportation, was totally readied for combat together with the army of the new Russian revolutionary government.

Continuation of previous post
Serbian Participation in the Eastern Front [Combat Activity]

The first offensive operation involving the newly constructed 1st Serbian Army was the Kerensky Offensive. In the offensive, the Serbian 1st Army, including a corps of South Slavic troops from the overseas ethnic diaspora and prisoners-of-war, was the major Serbian force involved in the operation intended to boost the morale of Serbia and the new Russian government. The Serbs were to capture south Ukraine and break through the Carpathians or divert attention and enable a joint Russian-Romanian success in the offensive by taking Lvov, captured Romanian territory and Galicia.
The offensive began on 1 July 1917 and took the German South Army [in the east] unprepared and unexpected as the troops in the organization didn't expect the offensive to happen anytime with Serbian performance. The Romanians also launched their offensive to destroy the enemy forces occupying their homeland through encirclement and capturing Transylvania and Wallachia from Marasti in Moldova. The operation achieved some success and the German South Army was encircled before a relief operation liberated the encircled troops in their salient and took Lvov. This was the effort of reinforcements transferred from the west, Balkans and northern sector of the east. Astonishingly, the Serbs, Romanians, non-Russian ethnicities and southern Russians proved their worth and success in the offensive while the majority of the Russian Army refused to obey orders before the offensive failed completely as a result of rebelling and desertions. The Germans and Austro-Hungarians captured Chernivtsi in the Ukraine on 28 July [the 3rd anniversary of WW1 and Serbia's role in it] and routed the Serbs, capturing the Serbian reinforcements. Revolutionary and enemy propaganda spread to increase the Serbs' demoralisation despite minimal effect.
Then, the Bolshevik October Revolution came and trapped the Serbs in Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerensky_Offensive
http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwi/articles/kerenskyoffensive.aspx

Serbian Army In The Russian Civil War

Introduction
When Russia's role in WW1 ended in December 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution and an armistice, only a division mostly composed of Croats and Slovenes was evacuated in time [and would fight in France and Italy]. The Orthodox Serbs were left to fight with their Slavic Orthodox Russian brethren in Russia when the 'alien Bolsheviks' took power and negotiated a retreat from Russia by train and ship through Archangelsk and Siberia. While the negotiations were initially permitted by the Bolsheviks [who agreed with their self-determination and support of Serbia under a communist government], the Central Powers demanded that the Serbs face internment in their countries or the new Soviet Union. Under pressure from fellow Bolshevik politicians, Central Power leaders and others, Trotsky agreed to this clause when it was added to the list of Central Power demands in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and subsequent demands.
During the German advance of February 1918, which was resisted by some rebellious, White Russian and non-Russian units, several Serbian units were lost in action and the few thousands of prisoners captured were punished by their captors. Due to complicity in starting WW1, rebellion and political issues, the Serbian resistance in Russia was a cause for the Central Power and Bolshevik demands for the Serbs to be interned or disarmed. The latter would refuse and after rebelling, start an adventurous campaign in Russia when away from home.
Serbian Army fighting in Russia
[Very similar to the Czechoslovak Legions in reality. Read this article and consider it as a source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Czechoslovak_Legion]
Part 1: The Serbian [and Yugoslavian] Legions' Rebellion
Conflicts with the Bolsheviks provoked what was generally known as the 'Revolt of the [Yugoslav] Legions' in Yugoslavia [now Serbia] and even before the official proclamation of conflict, there were fights between Czechoslovak and Yugoslav legionaries on trains going east to continue their participation in the Entente's war effort and German and Austro-Hungarian prisoners (including some Czechs and Slovaks) returning west to [resume the] fight for "the other" side. On 14 May 1918, retreating Slavic legionaries stopped a train of Hungarian prisoners at Chelyabinsk in the Urals and shot several returning Austro-Hungarian soldiers who threw stones at the Czechs and Yugoslavs, killing several men in retribution. Then, the local Bolshevik government arrested some of the Czechoslovaks and Yugoslavs before ordering their execution for murdering Austro-Hungarians and local communists. Legionnaire members assaulted the railway station, and subsequently captured Chelyabinsk city itself. This incident incited tensions between the Entente-Slavic Legions and the Bolsheviks.

Czechoslovaks and Yugoslavs quickly occupied cities surrounding the Urals and Siberia on their route such as Chelyabinsk, Petropavlovsk, Kurgan and others. Around the same moment the Czechs and Yugoslavs arrived in the cities, Russian officers' organizations in Omsk and Petropavlovsk had the Bolshevik leaders overthrown. Within a month, the White Russians and their legionnaire allies had a huge portion of the Trans-Siberian Railway in western Siberian regions under their control. During the summer, elimination of Bolshevik power in Siberia was absolute. [Tsar Nicholas II would still be executed in July, being executed earlier in July or in a different place in Siberia, but by 17 July 1918 nevertheless].

In early June, the Slavic legionaries took the city of Samara after defeating the Bolsheviks there. On 8 June 1918, a 'Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly' was formed there - the first official anti-Bolshevik government in Russia formed during 1918. The Provisional Siberian Government was formed at Omsk on 13 June, also with the Slavic Legions' assistance. It was mentioned by the White Russian Government there, "Our detachment - a vanguard of Allied Forces, had only a single goal - to rebuild an anti-German and Austrian front in Russia in collaboration with other White Russians, Czechoslovaks, Yugoslavs and our allies."
In July, Russian troops under the command of General Vladimir Kappel captured Syzran while Czechoslovak and Yugoslav troops had territory stretching from Cecek to Kuznetsk under control before beginning their offensive towards Kazan and Saratov. In Western Siberia, Tyumen was captured by Yugoslav troops under command of Field Marshal Živojin Mišić, under transfer to the east with his troops, while in Eastern Siberia, Captain [and later General] Radola Garda took Irkutsk and Chita for the White Russians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Legion
Reports of the Czechoslovaks and Yugoslavs summer campaigning in Siberia during 1918 was welcomed by Entente ministers in Britain, Italy and France, who saw the operation as a good method to restore an eastern front against the Central Powers in WW1's decision year. Even Woodrow Wilson, the American president, who had resisted earlier Allied plans to intervene in Russia initially, grudgingly conceded to local and international demands to support the legionaries' operations in Russia and necessary evacuation from Serbia. In early July 1918, a demand asking for a for a small-scale intervention in Siberia by America and Japan to rescue the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav troops, who were then stopped by Bolshevik forces in combat, despite the capture of the Trans-Baikal region and most of Siberia.

But by the time most American and Japanese units landed in Vladivostok, the Czechoslovaks, White Russians and Yugoslavs were already there to welcome them and accept control of Siberia in exchange for some combat and the rescue of several royals. The Allied intervention in Siberia persisted to the extent that by autumn 1918, there were 70,000 Japanese, 829 British, 1,400 Italian, 5,002 American and 107 French colonial (mostly Vietnamese) troops in the region. Anti-Bolshevik Russians, Cossacks, Czechoslovaks, local warlords, dissatisfied and rightist socialists and Yugoslavs formed contingents with foreign support and had established regional governments in the wake of the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav seizure of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Legions' Siberian Campaign earned praise from Allied statesmen and attracted them to the conception of an independent Czechoslovak state and 'Greater Serbia [Yugoslavia plus Slovenia, Croatia, southern Hungary, the Banat and parts of Macedonia]' with support from Entente countries. As the foreign legionaries cruised from one victory to another during 1918, the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav National Councils began receiving official statements of recognition and solidarity from Entente governments worldwide.

Despite the solidarity displayed by Czechoslovaks and Yugoslavs in the legions for White Russians and anti-Bolshevism, which resulted in victories for the White Russians such as the capture of Kazan with its gold reserve on 5 August 1918 in conjunction with Czechoslovak and Yugoslav help and the People's Army of Komuch also assisted. Under crucial Yugoslav and Czechoslovak pressure, the White Russians and foreign legions in Siberia were convinced to unify under the command of the All-Russian Provisional Government, which would be made of White Russians in rule.



Czechoslovak and Yugoslav troops in Siberia.
The strengthened Red Army in Siberia began its counter offensive and had the Whites on the Eastern front of the Russian Civil War defeated in October, but the Serbs saved the day for the Whites. After receiving news about the formation of independent Czechoslovakia and restoration of 'Yugoslavia' [Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro] without deserved Croatia and Slovenia [ceded to Italy instead due to smaller Serbian contribution to WW1]; legionaries starting questioning why they had to fight in the unnecessary Russian civil war, resulting in decreased enthusiasm for the campaigns along the Volga and Urals in White Russia. The failure to reinforce the legions with prisoners-of-war and the failure of foreign intervention in support of the legions also decreased the morale of Yugoslavs and Czechs. Also, the coup in Omsk by Admiral Alexander Kolchak in December 1918 [later than reality due to a better White performance and Yugoslav assistance] had the All-Russian Provisional Government disposed and replaced with a White Russian dictatorship under Kolchak ruling in Siberia. At the beginning of 1919, all Czechoslovak and [non-Serbian] Yugoslav troops began their retreat to the Trans-Siberian Railway to defend it and prepare for the journey home. On 27 January 1919, Jan Syrový (commander-in-chief of all Czechoslovak troops in Russia at the time) declared the Trans-Siberian Railway portion between Novonikolaevsk and Irkutsk as a "joint Czechoslovak-Yugoslav zone of operation". This ensured it was almost impossible for the White and Serbian Armies to use the railway for retreating at the beginning of 1920.

In Irkutsk, to secure the movement of Czechoslovak and Yugoslav trains, Generals Jan Syrový and Milan Nedic' at the beginning of 1920 agreed to turn over Alexander Kolchak, who had been stopped by Czechoslovak and Yugoslav troops and communists in the legion, to the representatives of the Siberian Political Centre. Kolchak was killed by the Political Centre and Misic was betrayed to the Bolsheviks, suffering as a result. Because of this, and also some rebellions against the Whites organized by Radola Gajda on 17 November 1919 in Vladivostok, the Whites blamed Czechoslovaks, leftists and non-Serbian Yugoslavs for treason.
From early 1920, the Czechoslovak Legion began to retreat from Russia through Vladivostok, and the evacuation was completed by the end of 1920.

Consequences on WW1

In this scenario, the absence of a Serbian Army in Macedonia [,Italy and France] does not affect WW1 in a significant manner. The only impacts on WW1 [assuming no significant butterfly effects on the Western, Eastern, naval and Italian fronts; which won't be impacted too heavily anyway] would be a faster defeat of Romania and [Russia] in [1916-1917], slightly better German [or Entente] Western Front performance in 1918, a more decisive Vittorio Veneto in 1918 [probably earlier depending on circumstances] and Germany [plus the Ottoman Empire] surrendering in December 1918 or [early] 1919 with consequences [except for dates] similar to reality or 'Germany fights on in WW1' threads.
By the way, the Macedonian Front was virtually irrelevant to WW1 anyway. Only in 1918, the defeat of Bulgaria would be crucial, but Germany was losing anyway. Vittorio Veneto and an alternate Balkan offensive would be the tipping points that lead to the Central Powers' [later] defeat.

Operation Urals

The rescue and recapture of the Tsar and the Imperial Gold
In July 1918, the advance of the Serbs on Yekaterinburg threatened the Bolshevik position there and the local Bolsheviks evacuated the city just in time to leave the Tsar and some Imperial Gold Reserves in the city on 15 July. Later, it was remarked that an attempt to assassinate Tsar Nicholas II and his son nearly succeeded with fatal injuries inflicted on the Tsar and some on his son before the Bolsheviks fled or were shot upon seeing the Serbian troops. The capture of Yekaterinburg boosted Yugoslav prestige in the Urals, but the Tsar was dead by 17 July.

Shortly after the Czechs and Yugoslavs made war against the Bolsheviks, the legionaries began to show support for anti-Bolshevik or White Russians who began to construct new governments under the Czechoslovaks and Yugoslavs security and defence lines. The Komuch Assembly in Samara and Provisional Siberian Government in Omsk were the most important of these governments. The latter's blatantly staunch anti-socialism resulted in the rescued, but badly injured Tsar Alexei being restored into power while treated unconscious in a hospital. With substantial Czechoslovak and Yugoslav assistance, the People's Army of the Komuch and the People's Siberian Counterrevolutionary Army [in name] won several important victories, including the taking of Kazan with its Imperial state gold reserves on 1 August 1918. Czechoslovak, Tsarist and Yugoslav demands were also important in convincing the White Russians in Siberia to theoretically unify their ambitions and operations behind the All-Russian Provisional Government, which was formed in Ufa during a September 1918 conference.

In the autumn of 1918, the foreign legionaries' interest for fighting in Russia, then restricted to the Volga, Siberia and the Urals, dropped rapidly. The quickly increasing Red Army was becoming bigger every day, retaking Kazan on 20 September, followed by Samara a month later before being stopped. The new Tsar Alexei and his family were caught and executed after more than 3 months of delay, thanks to the Tsar's illness and injuries. The foreign legionaries, whose maximum strength had peaked at around 161,000 earlier that year, found minimal reinforcements from POW camps who were reliable and were upset and shocked by the failure of Entente troops worldwide to support them on the battlefields. In November, the declarations of independence of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia after the Austro-Hungarian Empire's collapse were declared in national capital cities, bringing the soldiers with a wish to return to their home countries. The final blow to their morale arrived on 28 November 1918, when a coup in Omsk removed the All-Russian Provisional Government and placed a rightist dictatorship in Siberia under Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak's control instead.

During the ending months of 1918 and early 1919, Czechoslovaks were transferred across the front to secure the usage of the Trans-Siberian Railway between Novonikolaevsk and Irkutsk and defend them from partisans. Along with other legions formed from Polish and Romanian prisoners of WW1 and the civil war in Siberia, the Czechoslovaks defended the Kolchak government's only adequate supply route throughout 1919 while the Yugoslavs proceeded westward to European Russia after crossing the Urals, only to be defeated and forced to retreat with Czechoslovaks in support and harassed along the Trans-Siberian.

The Red Eastern Army Group ensured the flight of Kolchak and his armies in the autumn of 1919, and when compelled by the formation of a 'weak' Yugoslavia, left Kolchak and other White Russian Armies vulnerable, especially after the capture of Omsk, Kolchak’s capital, by the Reds, and a desperate White Russian, refugee and legionnaire retreat was initiated along the Trans-Siberian Railway. In the following weeks, in 1920, many outbreaks of revolts and partisan activity further disrupted the retreat of White Russians. The desired for leave was heavy among homesick and tired legionaries, who intended to leave Siberia without inflicting unnecessary casualties and declared their neutrality or pro-Bolshevik stance amid the unrest and rebellions, which couldn't be suppressed, as White Russians were losing and more dictatorial towards Yugoslavs.

The gold bullion seized from Kazan and Kolchak's train, were stranded along the Trans Siberian railway, not helped by rebellions, war wariness and strife among Yugoslavs and the need to evacuate refugees and non-Russians. After his desertion of Kolchak's bodyguard in Nizhneudinsk, the non-Russian legionaries failed to obey orders to safely escort the admiral to Vladivostok from Allied representatives in Siberia. This plan was resisted by insurgents, deserters, rebels and evacuated troops along the Czechoslovaks and Yugoslavs, with several troops used the needed route at the expense of other troops, and consequently, the stranded Czech and Yugoslav legionaries, after asking their commanders, made the controversial decision to turn bring to the Political Center, which consisted of moderate socialists in Irkutsk, Kolchak and several undesirable high ranking foreign legionnaire and White Russian commanders. The legionaries had an armistice already signed on 19 March 1920 with the Fifth Red Army at Kutin, whereby the latter allowed the Czechoslovaks, Yugoslavs and other non- White Russians not to be arrested or executed safe passage to Vladivostok. In exchange, the legionaries conceded not to try to save the people wanted for arrest and execution, such as Kolchak, and to surrender the remaining gold bullion to the Irkutsk Bolshevik authorities. By 15 March, a Cheka firing squad executed Kolchak to prevent his rescue by White Russians and legionnaires then on the outskirts of the city.

Final evacuation from Russia

When the armistice with the Bolsheviks for evacuation was concluded, many Czechoslovak and Yugoslav trains were stranded west of Irkutsk. On 1 May 1920, the last Czechoslovak train passed through Irkutsk, and the Yugoslavs and non-combatants the city by 29 May. There was hindrance to the legionaries' movement at times by the troops of the Ataman Grigori Semenov [in 1920] and the Japanese Expeditionary Force in Siberia, who stopped the movement of Czechoslovaks, Yugoslavs and their trains to delay and futilely defeat the entrance in Eastern Siberia of the Red Army. By then, however, Yugoslav and Czechoslovak troops were well underway in evacuating from Vladivostok, with 3-6 years spent in Russia for the ex-prisoners of war among them and the Yugoslavs from the Serbian Army that couldn't be evacuated earlier [in 1917/1918 to Italy and France, with conflicts between the nations about their deployment in Italian territory for supposedly Yugoslav lands and in the Western Front when needed to fight Austria-Hungary without passing through Belgium, Germany and Italy] had spent 4 years in Russia, and the last legionaries had totally evacuated the port by December 1920. After their return to Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, many legionaries formed the basis of their national armies. [Varying possible figures for people with the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Legions being evacuated compared to reality, but certainly higher among those evacuated, 150,000 being evacuated being a conservative estimate due to most of the Serbian Army being in Russia instead of the Balkans from 1917-1920.]

The number of foreign legionaries who contributed to the fatality rates among themselves in troops of their organizations in Russia during World War I and the Russian Civil War amounted to 4,112 for the Czechoslovaks and 18,250 for the Yugoslavs. An unknown number of legionaries disappeared or deserted the legions, either to make a difficult journey to return home or seek refuge in other places, to join the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Communist Parties or to receive Soviet citizenship.


[Dates later than reality due to Yugoslav involvement on the White Russian side of the Russian Civil War. In the event this scenario has conflicting dates for the same events, the later or latest date should be used to reflect this story and the earlier sentence in this bracketed paragraph. Major consequences are a slightly longer Russian Civil War, the temporary survival of Tsarevich Alexei and siblings [but not of Nicholas II and his wife] and the lack of a Salonika Front, with greater Italian dominance and control over Slovenia and Croatia with Yugoslavia being smaller than reality after a slightly different WW1 ending in December instead of 11 November 1918. Not much different otherwise from reality until this scenario's WW2 besides necessary butterflies. End of story.]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Legion [Used unless mentioned otherwise, there are too many Serbian soldiers in Russia [nearly the entire Serbian Army on 1 January 1916 unless otherwise mentioned and a few more brigades of Serbian Volunteer troops in Russia besides the actual two Serbian Volunteer Divisions in Russia, with the Serbian Army and Volunteer troops used in the Romanian front of WW1 and Ukraine in 1916-1917, especially the Volunteers after the Serbian Army's transfer through the Arctic and Petrograd to Moscow and the Serbian combatant fronts in Ukraine, Moldova and Romania] after the Bolshevik Revolution to be evacuated safely in this scenario unlike the reality of 2 Serbian Volunteer Divisions in Russia. The 2 actual Serbian Volunteer divisions or the equivalent in them and/or of the Royal Serbian Army would be evacuated as in reality, or more of them at the expense of Czechoslovaks as in reality, if not larger in proportion.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Serbian_Volunteer_Division

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