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The largest Mongolian unit in the Asian division was the Mongolian division of Prince Sunduy-guna, which actually consisted directly under Ungern and served as an escort*. According to Ossendovsky, the riders of the division were dressed in red robes with yellow shoulder straps, on which a stencil was applied in the form of a swastika. This information is partly complemented by the French historian V. Gerson, who claims that the shoulder straps were light yellow and the swastika was embroidered. The rest of the Mongol detachments under the command of Tseven-Tergun, princes Baljnyam Bayar-guna, Luvsan-Tseven, Dugor-Meren, Darih-lama and others who submitted to Ungern did not have a uniform form, continuing to wear national robes.
In general,due to Ungern, the Asian Horse Division acquired a rather exotic look. The most recent testimony to this was left by Colonel V.Yu. Sokolnitsky -- the chief of staff of the Partisan Non-Cossack squad of the Gorno-Altai Region under Ataman A.P. Kaygorodov, seconded to Urga to coordinate actions with Ungern. On May 23, 1921, he caught up with the division, which had set out on the march to Transbaikal. “The troops were marching in brilliant order, and I somehow involuntarily transferred my thoughts to the good old times." - he wrote. - "The alignment was like in a parade. It was not delayed. A long column of cavalry and artillery powerfully left behind it a mile, stretching to the unknown ... The bright clothes of the regiments: Mongolian, Chinese, Buryat - ruffled my eyes. ”