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Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)

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*[https://archive.org/details/flamingswordinse00stobrich ''The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere''] by Mrs St. Clair Stobart 1916 Archive.org The author organized and directed a hospital for the Serbian Relief Fund
:[https://archive.org/details/mydiaryinserbiaa00stanrich ''My diary in Serbia, April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915''] by Monica M Stanley, attached to the Stobart Field Hospital in Serbia. 1916 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/retreatfromserbi00aldriala ''The retreat Retreat from Serbia through Montenegro and Albania''] by Olive M Aldridge 1916. The author was with the Serbian Relief Fund under Mrs Stobart from July 1915, until she reached London in December 1915.:[http://www.edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/pdf_Serbian_refugees.pdf "The Great Retreat In Serbia In 1915"] by M. I. Tatham. (Scroll down). First published in ''Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War'' edited by C. B. Purdom 1930. Miss M I Tatham served (1915) with Stobart Field Hospital (Serbian Relief Unit), Kraguyevatz, Serbia.
*[https://archive.org/details/withserbiaintoex00jonerich ''With Serbia into Exile; an American's Adventures with the Army that Cannot Die''] by Fortier Jones 1916 Archive.org. The author was initially (most likely) with the Columbia University Relief Expedition, for the relief of non combatants. These men were recruited as drivers - each to have an automobile for carrying supplies together with an English-speaking Serb to act as an interpreter. He subsequently joined the Christitch Mission at Valjevo, run by Mlle Anna Christitch, of the London ''Daily Express''.
*[https://archive.org/details/strickenlandserb00aske ''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)
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