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British Army regimental histories and accounts
* ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' (in three Volumes) Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. Vol III includes 10th Battalion in Salonika, [https://archive.org/details/black-watch-vol3/page/213/mode/2up page 213] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/stream/archibalddonmemo00sayliala#page/126/mode/2up Page 126, ''Archibald Don, a Memoir''] 1918. Archive.org. Archibald Don was a medical student who was commissioned as an officer of the 10th Battalion, Black Watch, which was sent to Salonika in November 1915. He died of malignant malaria September 1916.
*[https://archive.org/details/greenhowardsgtwar/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Green Howards in the Great War''] by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1926 Archive.org. Includes Macedonia.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b742714?urlappend=%3Bseq=318%3Bownerid=9007199274796524-336 "Italy and Salonika"] page 293, Volume II ''The Die-hards in the Great War: a History of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) 1914-1919 , compiled from the records of the line special reserve, service, and territorial battalions'' by Everard Wyrall [1926] HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/diehardsvol2/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org version]
*[https://archive.org/details/eastyorkshirereggtwar/page/n9/mode/2up ''The East Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War 1914-1918''] by Everard Wyrall 1928. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gloucestershireregwar/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Gloucestershire Regiment in the War 1914-1918. The Records of the 1st (28th), 2nd (61st), 3rd (Special Reserve) and 4th, 5th, and 6th (First-Line T.A.) Battalions''] by Everard Wyrall 1931 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/historydcli1914/page/n9/mode/2up ''The History of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1914-1919''] by Everard Wyrall 1932. Archive.org. Includes Salonika. (Previously [[32nd Regiment of Foot|32nd Reg.]])
*[https://archive.org/details/loyalnorthlancashirereg/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Volume 2 1914-1919''] by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1933. Includes Macedonia.
*''The Fifth in the Great War - A History of the 1st & 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, 1914-1918'' by Brigadier H. R. Sandilands 1938. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-Fifth-in-the-Great-War-A-History-of-the-1st-and-2nd-Northumberland-Fusiliers-1914-1918/files/assets/basic-html/page249.html "Chapter XVI. Second Battalion-25th October, 1915-26th June, 1918. "Macedonia, 1915-1918"-" Struma.""] A transcription by OCR, so subject to inaccuracies. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk
*''The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914 -1918'' by C.T.Atkinson, originally published 1931 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-south-wales-borderers-1914-1918/ ''History of the South Wales Borderers 1914- 1918''] by C T Atkinson, originally published 1931. Naval & Military Press.</ref> which is in turn available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19XLg-ecJX ''The History of the South Wales Borderers''] located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain/Scroll to letter T. 7th and 8th Battalions, both in 22nd Division, after only a month in France went with the division to Macedonia in November 1915 where they saw out the rest of the war.
:Private Powell arrived Salonika January 1918, served with the 9th East Lancs.Regt. on Doiran sectors until February 1919.
*[https://archive.org/details/muckydonia1917190000math/mode/2up ''‘Muckydonia’ 1917-1919, being the adventures of a one-time 'Pioneer' in Macedonia and Bulgaria during the First World War''] by William D Mather 1979 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He arrived in Salonika in February 1917, where he was posted to the 8th Ox & Bucks LI which was a Pioneer Battalion, which did 'the dirty work' of the R Es.
 
====French Army====
*[https://archive.org/details/withfrenchinfran00daviiala ''With the French in France and Salonika''] by Richard Harding Davis New York 1916 Archive.org
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