Anton Antonovich Dobkevich, 1892/1894 - 1973

A. A. Dobkevich was born on 18 January 1894 (1892 according to other records) in the city of Dubno. Commissioned as an officer upon graduation from the Kiev Military School in 1913 (1912) in the 3rd Zaamurskii pogranichnyi pekhotnyi polk, he transferred to the 6th Zaamurskii pogranichnyi pekhotnyi polk upon its departure for the front in February 1915. On the Southwestern (Russian) front of the First World War, he commanded the machine-gun detachment of an armored train and was appointed commander of the armored car "Zaamurets" in June 1916. Following this, Dobkevich served with the 1st Zaamurskii Zheleznodorozhnyi polk until his demobilization in 1918.

In April 1918, he was appointed deputy commander of the engineering section of the Russian forces of the extraterritorial zone of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and thereafter served in various capacities, including commander of an armored train, along the Chinese Eastern Railway until 1920. He emigrated to the United States in 1922, and died in California in January 1973.

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