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*[http://www.borgognon.net/VEBdiary.html [1918 Balkans<nowiki>]</nowiki> "Diary of Lt Victor Edward Borgonon (1882-1966)"] | *[http://www.borgognon.net/VEBdiary.html [1918 Balkans<nowiki>]</nowiki> "Diary of Lt Victor Edward Borgonon (1882-1966)"] | ||
*[http://velikirat.nb.rs/en/about Serbian Great War Digital Library] National Library of Serbia. Includes images, maps, some books in English. | *[http://velikirat.nb.rs/en/about Serbian Great War Digital Library] National Library of Serbia. Includes images, maps, some books in English. | ||
*[http://markshep58.wix.com/801-mt-coy-asc 801 MT COY ASC] 801st Mechanical Transport Company of the Army Service Corps [British Army] | |||
===Prisoners of War=== | ===Prisoners of War=== | ||
*[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/steuer/index.html'' Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 1914-1923''] by Kenneth Steuer, written as a dissertation in 2008. Website of Gutenberg-e, a program of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press. | *[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/steuer/index.html'' Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 1914-1923''] by Kenneth Steuer, written as a dissertation in 2008. Website of Gutenberg-e, a program of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press. | ||
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*[http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/prisoners_of_war_and_internees_south_east_europe Prisoners of War and Internees (South East Europe)] by Bogdan Trifunović. encyclopedia.1914-1918. Briefly mentions British POWs in Bulgaria. | *[http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/prisoners_of_war_and_internees_south_east_europe Prisoners of War and Internees (South East Europe)] by Bogdan Trifunović. encyclopedia.1914-1918. Briefly mentions British POWs in Bulgaria. | ||
*[http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/other_cemeteries_ext/plovdiv_central_cem.htm Plovdiv Central Cemetery, Bulgaria]. Contains Commonwealth War Graves from several sites. ww1cemeteries.com | *[http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/other_cemeteries_ext/plovdiv_central_cem.htm Plovdiv Central Cemetery, Bulgaria]. Contains Commonwealth War Graves from several sites. ww1cemeteries.com | ||
* Also see [[Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)]] for an indication of the types of records which may be available, including the National Archives records FO 383. | *Also see [[Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)]] for an indication of the types of records which may be available, including the National Archives records FO 383. | ||
===Historical books online=== | ===Historical books online=== | ||
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Alternative spelling
Salonica, Salonika
External links
- "Macedonia 1916-1918: Indian Military Transport Units in Macedonia" by Harry Fecitt, Harry’s Sideshows kaiserscross.com
- Great War Forum includes a category "Salonika & the Balkans"
- Salonika Campaign Society
- "The Indian Cemetery In Salonica" by Helen Abadzi. For deaths 1916-1920. Website of the "Indo-Hellenic Society for Culture & Development", November 30th, 2006.
- "Military Cemeteries Of The First World War In Macedonia Region: Routes Of Reading History In Search The Common Cultural Heritage" by Eleni Gavra and Vlasis Vlasidis macedonian-heritage.gr. 1st Specialty International Conference on Monumental Cemeteries. Knowledge, Conservation, Restyling and Innovation, (Μodena, 3-5 May, 2006), Roma, 2007, ISBN 978 88 54801147-8, vol. 1, pp.179-189
- [1918 Balkans] "Diary of Lt Victor Edward Borgonon (1882-1966)"
- Serbian Great War Digital Library National Library of Serbia. Includes images, maps, some books in English.
- 801 MT COY ASC 801st Mechanical Transport Company of the Army Service Corps [British Army]
Prisoners of War
- Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 1914-1923 by Kenneth Steuer, written as a dissertation in 2008. Website of Gutenberg-e, a program of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press.
- Bulgarian Prison Camps. Click on the map for a list of the camps in Bulgaria.
- "First World War Central Power Prison Camps" by Kenneth Steuer 1-1-2013 History Faculty Publications, Western Michigan University . Includes Bulgarian Prison Camps
- Prisoners of War in Bulgaria during the First World War A dissertation submitted as part of the Tripos Examination in the Faculty of History, Cambridge University, April 2012. No author is given on the paper but elsewhere the author is given as Rumen Cholakov. This is a link to a pdf download. Once downloaded, depending on your browser, you may need to look in your download folder.The camp at Plovdiv housed all British and most French prisoners from 1916 onwards.
- Prisoners of War and Internees (South East Europe) by Bogdan Trifunović. encyclopedia.1914-1918. Briefly mentions British POWs in Bulgaria.
- Plovdiv Central Cemetery, Bulgaria. Contains Commonwealth War Graves from several sites. ww1cemeteries.com
- Also see Prisoners of the Turks (First World War) for an indication of the types of records which may be available, including the National Archives records FO 383.
Historical books online
- The Balkans: A Laboratory of History by William M Sloane, Professor of History, Columbia University, 1914. Archive.org. Revised and Enlarged edition 1920 Archive.org
- Secrets of the Balkans: Seven Years of a Diplomatist’s Life in the Storm Centre of Europe by Charles J Vopicka, United States Envoy…to Roumania, Serbia and Bulgaria 1913-1920. 1920 Archive.org
- History of the Great War: Medical Services: General History, Volume IV by G W Macpherson 1924. Includes Salonika. Archive.org
- Memoranda on some medical diseases in the Mediterranean war area, with some sanitary notes HMSO 1916. Archive.org
- "Typhus Fever" page 133 History of the Great War: Medical Services: Diseases of the War Volume I Archive.org
- Typhus Fever: with particular reference to the Serbian Epidemic by Richard P Strong, Director of the American Red Cross and International Sanitary Commissions to Serbia. 1920 Archive.org
- The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Link to an Adobe pdf download. Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with a chapter on the Balkans.
- A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Includes a chapter on Salonika.
- War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Volume V by H A Jones 1935. Part of the series History of the Great War based on official documents. Includes Macedonia. Archive.org
- The War and the Balkans by Noel Buxton MP and Charles Roden Buxton 1915 Archive.org
- Russia, the Balkans and the Dardanelles by Granville Fortescue, Special Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph 1915 Archive.org
- The Intervention of Bulgaria : and the Central Macedonian question by Crawfurd Price 1915 Archive.org
- The Balkan Cockpit, the political and military story of the Balkan Wars in Macedonia by W H Crawfurd Price 1915 Archive.org
- Light on the Balkan Darkness by Crawfurd Price 1915 Archive.org
- The Dawn of Armageddon or The provocation by Serbia, (vide German note to neutrals, Jan. 11, 1917) by Crawfurd Price 1917 Archive.org
- The Role of Serbia. A brief account of Serbia's place in world politics and her services during the war by Crawfurd Price, formerly Correspondent of the Times with the Serbian Army. 1918 Archive.org
- Serbia's Part in the War, Volume I: The Rampart against Pan-Germanism being the political and military story of the Austro-Serbian campaigns by Crawfurd Price 1918. Archive.org. This appears to have been the only volume published.
- Through the Serbian campaign : the Great Retreat of the Serbian Army by Gordon Gordon-Smith 1916 Archive.org
- From Serbia to Jugoslavia: Serbia's Victories, Reverses and Final Triumph, 1914-1918 by Gordon Gordon-Smith 1920 Archive.org
- My Balkan Log by J Johnston Abraham 1922 Archive.org
- "With the First Red Cross Mission to Serbia". Extract from Chapter X , Surgeon's Journey by James Johnston Abraham, in charge of The First British Red Cross Serbian Mission in 1915. vlib.us
- The Story of a Red Cross Unit in Serbia by James Berry, F May Dickinson Berry, W Lyon Blease 1916 Archive.org. The Anglo-Serbian Hospital, or the Royal Free Hospital.
- The Stricken Land: Serbia as we saw it by Alice and Claude Askew 1916 Archive.org. In 1915, both Alice and Claude Askew, who were authors, travelled to Serbia as part of a relief effort with a British field hospital that would be attached to the Second Serbian Army. They were also Special Correspondents for the British newspaper Daily Express. (Wikipedia)
- An English woman-sergeant in the Serbian Army by Flora Sandes 1916 Archive.org. LibriVox audio recording Archive.org
- The Autobiography of a Woman Soldier: A Brief Record of Adventure with the Serbian Army 1916-1919 by Flora Sandes c 1927 Archive.org
- At the Serbian Front in Macedonia by P E Stebbing 1917 Archive.org. The author was Transport Officer to a Unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals (The author had previously spent many years in the Indian Forest Service.)
- Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance by Robert Whitney Imbrie 1918. The author was a volunteer with the American Ambulance, in France and the Balkans, (Macedonia, Albania) where he was attached to the French “Army of the Orient” L’Armee Francaise d’Orient (French Expeditionary Force). The author was, or became, part of the American Field Service. Some extracts from this book are included in
- "In the Orient" [Balkans], page 341 History of the American Field Service in France, “Friends of France", 1914-1917, Volume I. 1920. Archive.org
- With the French in France and Salonika by Richard Harding Davis New York 1916 Archive.org
- The Story of the Salonica Army by G Ward Price, the official Correspondent of the Allied Forces in the Balkans 1918. New York edition, published by Edward J Clode Archive.org
- In Salonica With Our Army by Harold Lake Archive.org. Also published as 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.
- On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division by Geoffrey Sparrow MC, and J N MacBean Ross MC Surgeons RN 1918 Archive.org. Includes Gallipoli and Salonica
- Salonica and After, the Sideshow that ended the War by H. Collinson Owen, Editor of the Balkan News, and Official correspondent in the Near East 1919 Archive.org
- The Salonica Side-show by V J Seligman 1919 Archive.org
- The Salonika Front by Arthur James Mann, late Recording Officer 22 Balloon Company; paintings by William Thomas Wood. 1920 Archive .org
- With the Serbs in Macedonia by Douglas Walshe 1920 Archive.org. The author was an officer with 708 Company M T, ASC, a Light Supply and Ammunition Column of Ford vans attached to the Serbian Army.
- Serbia and Europe, 1914-1920 by Dr Lazare Marcovitch (Lazar Markovic) 1920 Archive.org
- A Subaltern in Serbia and some Letters from the Struma Valley by Captain A Donovan Young, Captain, Indian Army. Catalogued 1922. Archive.org
- The Macedonian Campaign by Luigi Villari 1922 Archive.org
- Reports of the American Red Cross Commissions upon their activities in Macedonia, Thrace, Bulgaria, the Ægean Islands and Greece 1919 Archive.org
- The American Red Cross Commission to Greece: Final report, Department of civilian relief, exclusive of the districts of the Aegean Islands and eastern Macedonia 1919
- The American Red Cross Commission to Greece:Relief work in eastern Macedonia 1919
- Serbia To Kut by Joseph T Parfit 1917. Pdf download, Digital Library of India - full title: Serbia to Kut: an account of the War in the Bible Lands [Balkans, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia]. An overview of the conflict. The author, then or subsequently, was Canon of St George’s Jerusalem.