Kornilovtsy Artillery

Most of this comes from "The RCW 1917-1922: White Armies", by A. Deryabin, (AST), which is a Russian equivalent of the Osprey Men-At-Arms series.

Uniforms

The dress uniform was basically normal Imperial artillery, but with Kornilov markings, since specifically Kornilov artillery did not appear until quite late.

Officer: General Kornilov Artillery Brigade	Portrait of V. M. Maksimov in what appears to be the uniform of the Kornilov Engineer Company	Artillery sleeve badge

The shoulder-boards were black, piped red, with the usual crossed gun badge of artillery and, formally, a letter "K" underneath. The sleeve badge was black rather than blue, and with crossed cannons instead of the grenade.

The rest of the uniform was standard Imperial artillery. The cap had a dark green crown, piped red, and a black hat-band, piped red.

The uniforms for engineers were basically exactly the same as artillery, but with crossed tools not cannons and silver metal. Presumably the Independent Kornilov Engineer Company were similar in that regard.

Brief History

It appears that specifically Kornilov artillery was quite late to appear, because the first Volunteer Army units were all "officer", and hence linked to the Officer Regiment (that became the Markov Regiment) and the original shock regiment had none of its own.

1st Separate Light Artillery Division

Formed in the Volunteer Army on 8 July 1918 on the basis of the 1st Officer Battery. It started with two batteries, then on 17 August 1918 added a third, and from 5 November 1918 a fourth. These were the 1st General Markov, 2nd, 3rd, and 1st Light Howitzer Batteries and an independent horse artillery gun. It was part of the 1st Infantry Division (so working alongside the Kornilov Regiment).

1st Artillery Brigade

Formed on 4 April 1919 as the artillery of the 1st Division on the basis of the 1st Independent Light Artillery Divizion. In practice the batteries were shared between the Markov and Kornilov regiments. On 5 October 1919 it had 14 light guns and 11 howitzers. On 29 July a two battery reserve divizion was added.

Kornilov Artillery Brigade

This was formed on 10 November 1919 on the basis of two divizions of the 1st Artillery Brigade (2nd Officer, 5th, 6th and 8th Batteries) as part of the Kornilov Division. It had four divizions.

From autumn 1919, the 2nd Divizion operated separately from the division and participated in the Bredov March.

After the evacuation of Novorossiysk it was reorganised. On 16 April 1920 the divizions were the 1st, 2nd (former Kornilov Artillery Brigade) and 4th Howitzer (former 4th divizion of the Alekseev Artillery Brigade).