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===Regimental and Corps Histories===
*''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery : the Forgotten Fronts and the Home Base 1914-18'' by Sir Martin Farndale 1988. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01008145796
*''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Volume VI: Gallipoli, Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine 1914-18'' edited by H.L. Pritchard 1952. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008913272. Reprint edition 1993 UIN: BLL01007823630 . Also available from the Institution of Royal Engineers (InstRE), as a book or part of a CD-ROM.<ref>[https://www.instre.org/pages/publications/books-for-sale/corps-history.php Corps History] and [https://www.instre.org/pages/publications/current-publications/corps-history-cd-rom.php Corps History CD-ROM] The Institution of Royal Engineers (InstRE)</ref>
*''Collections and Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R.E.''. Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers. Field Coy, 107th. Author may also be listed as M J Rattray. Published 1918. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001096078
:''Further Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R.E.'' [in Macedonia, 1915-1918]. Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers. Field Coy, 107th. Author may also be listed as "Sapper J Robertson and Former Lieutenant M J Rattray". Published 1920. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001096079
===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/archive/AppendixA/bulgaria/index.html Bulgarian Prison Camps]. Click on the map for a list of the camps in Bulgaria, being 1. Dobritch; 2. Eski-Djoumaja; 3. Harmanlu; 4. Haskovo; 5. Nish; 6. Philippolis (Plovdiv); 7. Rakhovo; 8. Rassgard; 9. Rustchak (Rousse); 10. Schmen; 11. Sliven; 12. Sofia; 13. Starazagora; 14.Tatar Bazarjik; 15. Varna**[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/steuer/steuer/archive/AppendixA/Bulgarian%20Prison%20Camps/ "Appendix A: Prison Camps: Bulgaria"]. This alphabetical list, which contains information about location, appears to be from an earlier/different version of the above book, and does not appear to be included in the current version. Numbers on the map are probably the same as the list above.
:[http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=history_pubs "First World War Central Power Prison Camps"] by Kenneth Steuer 1-1-2013 ''History Faculty Publications'', Western Michigan University . Includes Bulgarian Prison Camps
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ibrarian.net/navon/paper/Prisoners_of_War_in_Bulgaria_during_the_First_War.pdf?paperid=21748674 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 [Philippopolis, Philippoupolis] housed all British and most French prisoners from 1916 onwards.
*[https://archive.org/details/uncensoredletter00vassuoft ''Uncensored Letters from the Dardanelles''] written to his English Wife by a French Medical Officer of Le Corps Expeditionnaire D’Orient [Joseph Marguerite Jean Vassal] 1916 Archive.org. Includes Serbia. Book No. 4 in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War''.
*[https://archive.org/stream/statisticsofmili00grea#page/288/mode/2up "Casualties in Months, Salonica"] page 288 ''Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-1920''. The War Office HMSO 1922 Archive.org
*[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Corps-History-Vol-06.pdf ''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume VI: Gallipoli, Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine 1914-18''], edited by H.L. Pritchard, published 1952. Note: Volume VI does not include information about Signals as "The history of their work is being produced by the Royal Corps of Signals themselves"<ref>michaeldr. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/251301-royal-engineers-soldier-abandoned-in-gallipoli/?do=findComment&comment=2538402 Royal Engineers soldier abandoned in Gallipoli] ''Great War Forum'' 29 June 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2018.</ref>. nzsappers.org.nz
* ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org], mirror from 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. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 Archive.org], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726/2015.274726.A-History#page/n265/mode/2up Chapter XII Salonika], page 236. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Corps-Histories/library/A-History-of-the-Army-Ordnance-Services-Volume-Three/files/assets/basic-html/page5.html OCR Text version] [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Corps-Histories/library/A-History-of-the-Army-Ordnance-Services-Volume-Three/files/assets/basic-html/page252.html OCR Text version: Salonika]
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