Russian Artillery Captain Vsevolod Milodanovich with sword and watch
Vsevolod Evgenievich Milodanovich was born in St. Petersburg on 18 August 1892 to Maj. Gen. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Milodanovich. He was educated at the Naval Cadet Corps and the Mikhailovsky Artillery School. Upon graduating from the latter (1912), the young second lieutenant was assigned to the 32nd Artillery Brigade stationed in Rivne. His wartime service along the Eastern Front saw him rise to staff captain by 1917 and earn the St. Anne in three classes, and both the St. Stanislav and St. Vladimir in two. During the Civil War, between 1918 and 1920, he served cyclically with the Ukrainians, Poles, and finally with Wrangel’s Whites in various artillery and intelligence assignments. Accepted to the Czechoslovak army in 1923, by 1938 he was a Czech major commanding the reserve battalion of the 15th Regiment. With the partition that occurred, he wound up in the Slovak Army in 1939 as commander of the 15th Artillery Regiment. He was a lieutenant colonel in May 1945 when his unit surrendered to the Americans and, post-POW camp, emigrated to Australia from where he published a very interesting memoir and more than 200 scholarly articles before he passed in 1977.