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:[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/lettersfromfield00dear ''Letters from a Field Hospita''l] by Mabel Dearmer 1915 Archive.org. The husband of author Mabel Dearmer was appointed as Chaplain to the British units in Serbia, so she volunteered as an orderly with the Stobart Serbian Unit. She died at Kragujevatz of typhoid fever July 1915.
:[https://archive.org/details/retreatfromserbi00aldriala ''The 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.Archive.org:[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. edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005891781 ''A Farmer in Serbia''] by Ellen Chivers Davies. 1916 Hathi Trust Digital Library, accessible to those in some areas such as North America. An account of the nursing (not agricultural) experiences of the 2nd British Farmers Unit [so called because of the funding], Serbian Relief Fund. The author became a prisoner.
*[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)
