Attached are shots of my REF "Russian Legion" uniform, WWI. I would love to know if the 3 bars on the cuff are French Equivalent rank, if this is a Russian Lt Col or Col., and if anyone knows what medal or medals an officer of this higher rank would have had, and where to get REAL ones, not nice fakes. Is there a roster of the officers, and is this an infantry officer or did they all wear infantry boards? Help appreciated!

Good day, colleague.

By the offer of RichieC I have asked my russian fellow collectors to ID this all uniform and the answer was:

"The most doubtful is the visor cap. The form and model are completely different from the visor caps of that time; there shall be no chinstrap or even buttons for it. the cocarde is unknown, and, finally, the visor caps of such colours were worn befor the ww1 only by chevallier guards (cavalergard) and horse guards, and also during the civil war soldiers od Alexeev did (1st horse regiment of general Alexeev), but they all has no relation to the expeditionary corpse. During the war all russian army officers and officials were to wear a visor cap of defensive (prob. khaki or olive green) colour.
French (tunic) is of the private purchase of the possible model and only in common reminds the established model. Made well, the colour of material looks like an old one, there were such materials at that time, but this tells us nothing about it.
Shoulderboards have the sub-colonel (Lt. Col) signs. but the absence of coded information (letters and numbers code) adds a lot of doubt. The form of the shoulderboards looks more like soviet of 1950-ies, than of those times, the old one hat the upper part made in the very different way. By the way, is it a defensive coloured silk or just aged colour of the silk sewing at the shoulderboards?
Visor caps and shoulderboards probably are fake or simply mismatching to the tunic, and the tunic may be properly examined only with better pictures".

This was the reply of a respected ww2 russian forum member.

If helped, ok.

If no, make better pics of shoulderboards, visor cap separately, cocarde on it, and french (tunic) from all sideviews.

I'll try to clear it all.

If tunic is original..The three stripes were to denote wounds
wounded three times..

George

george, where are the stripes you are talking about?

You can just see them on the left lower arm.They are only slightly darker than the tunic.Just trying to help.
Jim

jim thanks, I just did not note them.