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Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)

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*[https://archive.org/details/insalonicawithou00lakerich ''In Salonica With Our Army''] by Harold Lake [1917]. Archive.org. Also published as [https://archive.org/details/campaigninginba01lakegoog ''Campaigning in the Balkans''] by Lieutenant Harold Lake, New York 1918. Archive.org. The author was with the British Army, an officer in what appears to be an infantry regiment.
*[http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/A-History-of-the-Black-Watch-in-the-Great-War-Royal-Highlanders.asp ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' [in three Volumes<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Requires Flash 'enabled' to view the books. If you see a Flash icon, click on it. Vol III includes 10th Battalion in Salonika. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/A-History-of-The-Black-Watch-Royal-Highlanders-in-the-Great-War-1914-1918-Volume-III/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html Volume III transcribed edition] lib.militaryarchive.co.uk.
:[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.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100002346476.0x000002 ''The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the World War''] by Sir Frank Fox. [With plates and maps] 1928. British Library Digital. Includes a chapter on Salonika.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three Fronts''] Edited by his wife. 1919. The letters of George Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles]. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta, Egypt and Palestine, where he died. He was a well known Theosophist. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
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