Wilson, John E.

John E. Wilson, of Russell, Kansas, was chaplain of the North Russia Transportation Corps, a unit of the U.S. Army that served in the Murmansk region of Russia from April to July, 1919, during the Allied intervention against the Communist revolutionary government in Russia. The Transportation Corps, made up of the 167th and 168th Companies, was charged with maintaining the railroad connection between Murmansk and Soroka, Russia, in support of the Allied force in the Archangel region.

While he was in Russia, Wilson took hundreds of photographs, and on his return to the United States put together a collection of "North Russia Pictures" that he sold to his fellow soldiers as well as to news services. A number of the photos were also reproduced in Wilson's book, Arctic Antics of the North Russia Transportation Corps Expedition of the U.S. Army .

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