Dimitry Roukhline

A citizen of the city of Konstantinograd, in Poltava Province, present-day Ukraine. In 1906, he completed his studies at the Chuguyev Infantry Officer School and was assigned as a second lieutenant to the 127th Putivlsky Infantry Regiment, in which he entered World War I as a lieutenant. He rose quickly through the ranks thanks to his exemplary conduct in the face of the enemy. He participated in the Civil War as a colonel in the White Army in southern Russia and in General Drozdovsky's units until the evacuation of Crimea in 1919. He remained at Gallipoli in General Wrangel's army. He arrived in France in the autumn of 1925. He lived in Paris, where he worked as a taxi driver and headed the Drozdovsky group for many years. He was a member of the Gallipoli Veterans' Society and the Union of Russian Taxi Drivers. Awarded the Order of Saint George in September 1914, he is buried in the Drozdovsky Military Square with Semen Kulandin (1898–1956) and Alexander Petrov (1894–1956).