 Hostilities did not end for the 17th King 's on 11 November ; the battalion had sailed for Murmansk , Russia , in October as part of an Allied intervention force assembled to support the " White " forces in their civil war against the Bolsheviks . The battalion was moved to Archangel , where it was based intact for a short period . The battalion 's companies served separately for the duration of their stay in Russia , until the 17th left in September 1919 . 
