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Col. Christopher (Krish-Indrik) Genrikhovich Kücke Krišs Ķūķis. A Lutheran and ethnic Estonian born in 1874 the Courland province, he graduated from the Odessa infantry cadet school and accepted a spot as an ensign in the 37th Yekaterinburg Infantry Regiment in 1900. Earning a St. Anne as a subaltern with the 10th Omsk Siberian Infantry Regiment during the Russo-Japanese War, by August 1914 he picked up a St. George while leading the machine gun company of the 39th Tomsk Infantry Rgt near Loshchev, which was pinned on him by the Tsar himself. Captured while leading a battalion at Lake Naroch in April 1916, he escaped the Revolution by virture of being a guest of the Kaiser at the Helmstedt stalag then, in early 1919, was released through the offices of the British Red Cross and made his way to join Yudenich’s White Army in the Baltics that summer as a company commander. After Yudenich melted away, Genrikhovich would join the Estonian Army (he is seen in a British-supplied Estonian uniform in the center) and held a variety of positions through the late 1920s when he retired. Active in both Estonian and exile politics and a supporter of the assorted “Forest Brothers” groups during the Soviet occupation, he was eventaully liqguidated by Red Partisans in Feburay 1945.

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