Archangel

I had of course heard of Archangel, Russia, but knew little about it except that it lay on the northern coastline of Russia and sounded like a very cold and lonely place. So I could not think of anything but "cold and lonely" when I came across a little item in the "Local Drifts" column of Hobart Gazette of December 6, 1918, correcting the earlier, confused reports about Harold Maybaum's death.

He had died of pneumonia on September 9, not in England as previously reported, but in northern Russia. The army had buried him in the allied cemetery at Archangel. ("The parents received a letter from the first lieutenant of the company giving full details of his sickness, death and burial," the Gazette said, but those full details did not appear in the newspapers.)

Apparently Harold was part of what came to be known as the Polar Bear Expedition, though he died so soon after his arrival in Russia that he had little chance to take part in any action.

As for Archangel, some casual research suggests to me that it is not a lonely place; it is pretty cold, with a sub-arctic climate. However, according to the University of Michigan's records, it would not be not Harold's final resting place.