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**Ruston had previously been Temp. Lieut-Cdr R.N.V.R, Naval Armoured Car Squadron, during the Russian retreat in Galicia in July and August 1917. Ruston’s Naval commission was terminated 31.1.18 when he transferred to the Army <ref>TNA ADM/273/5/356 and ADM/337/118</ref>, along with other personnel. The Dunsterforce Armoured Car Brigade (known as the Duncars) was formed at the end of January 1918 from personnel from the Russian Armoured Car Division who were transferred from the Admiralty (or, more precisely, the Royal Marines, under whose control they were from November 1917) to the Machine Gun Corps (Motors). Duncars were equipped with a mixture of Austin armoured cars and Ford Model T vans armed with machine guns.<ref> charlesmessenger. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/244590-armoured-cars-naval-galicia-machine-gun-corps-baku/&do=findComment&comment=2460717 Armoured Cars: Naval, Galicia/ Machine Gun Corps, Baku] ''Great War Forum'' 7 November 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2016.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170521000156/http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/topics/war/rnacd.shtml Ulster's Forgotten Eastern Front] by Peter Stevenson, written c 2004 bbc.co.uk. The story of the Russian Armoured Car Division. Cites the book ''The Czar's British Squadron'' by Bryan Perrett and Anthony Lord.</ref>
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20120919161000/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Brits_in_Caucasus/Brits_in_Caucasus.htm 'With British. Armoured-Cars in the Caucasus'] told by a Petty-Officer, from ''The War Illustrated, 3rd February, 1917'' with photographs from an earlier edition. These photographs were republished in [https://archive.org/stream/warillustratedal08hammuoft#page/2720/mode/2up pages 2720-2721, Volume 8] ''The War Illustrated Album de Luxe'' Archive.org
*"Epic of the Dunsterforce" ''Reveille'' December 1931, published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch. Contains List of AIF members (Officer and NCOs) of Dunsterforce. Limited extracts from ''With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia''. [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19311231.1.5&srpos=1&e=------193-en-20--1--txt-txIN-----# Pages 3-4 (digital pages 5-6)], [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19311231.1.34&e=------193-en-20--1--txt-txIN------ page 32 (digital 34)] reveille.dlconsulting.com.
*[http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19320701.1.25&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-Bedingfield-----# "East Persia: Aussie’s Experiences"] ''Reveille'' July 1932, page 21 (digital page 25) published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch.
:[http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV193504.1.49&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ "East Persia and the War: An Australian’s Experiences". No 2] by RH Bedingfield ''Reveille'' April 1935 pages 48-49 (digital 49-50) reveille.dlconsulting.com.
*"With the Dunsterforce Irregulars" by Captain E W Latchford ''Reveille'', Volume 5, No 11- Volume 6, No 3, August-November 1932. Published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch
:[http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19320801.1.27&srpos=7&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------# August, page 25], [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19320801.1.76&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ August, pages 74-76] , [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19320801.1.82&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ August page 80], [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19320901.1.17&srpos=18&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------# September page 15], [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19320901.1.34&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ September, page 32], [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19321001.1.17&srpos=5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ October, page 15] [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19321001.1.27&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ October, page 25] (scroll down), [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19321101.1.8&srpos=19&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ November, page 6] reveille.dlconsulting.com. The Irregulars were Armenians, Assyrians etc, and Captain Latchford was from the Australian Army.
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