| The following page is under construction. Please do not edit or alter this article in any way while this template is active. All unauthorized edits may be reverted on the admin's discretion. Propose any changes to the talk page. Wrangel emerged from a technical education with a degree in mining in 1901, after which he embarked upon an initially short-lived military career. Having resigned from the army to take up an engineering position in Siberia he nevertheless returned to serve with distinction during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Remaining in the army he next attended the General Staff Academy. Upon the outbreak of war in August 1914 he was given command of a cavalry squadron in East Prussia and was later handed command of a Cossack regiment whilst being dispatched to Galicia in 1916. Having risen to the rank of Major-General Wrangel led the 7th Cavalry Division during the notably unsuccessful Kerensky Offensive of July 1917.