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==War Diaries at the National Archives, Kew==
War Diaries at the National Archives, Kew include the category "Part V: Salonika, Macedonia, Turkey Black Sea, Caucasus and South Russia". The record series ranges from [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C4557909 WO 95/4756] to [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C4558117 WO 95/4964] This series of War Diaries does not appear to have been digitised.
 
An annotated copy of the South Wales Borderers 7th Battalion’s war diary, covering the period from September 1915 to October 1919 is available from The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh.<ref>The Regimental Museum Of The Royal Welsh [https://www.facebook.com/royal.welsh.museum/photos/a.1307568786018263/1793839937391143/?type=3&theater Facebook post 14 September 2018] facebook.com/royal.welsh.museum</ref> (Brief details would appear in ''The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914 -1918'' by C.T.Atkinson, originally published 1931, and available at the British Library in a reprint edition UIN: BLL01009164174. Also available online on a pay website, refer below.)
==Aviation articles==
**[https://archive.org/details/regimentalrecord04dudl ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot). Volume IV 1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria''] by Major C H Dudley Ward 1929 Archive.org.
**''The Fifth in the Great War - A History of the 1st & 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, 1914-1918'' by Brigadier H. R. Sandilands 1938. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-Fifth-in-the-Great-War-A-History-of-the-1st-and-2nd-Northumberland-Fusiliers-1914-1918/files/assets/basic-html/page249.html "Chapter XVI. Second Battalion-25th October, 1915-26th June, 1918. "Macedonia, 1915-1918"-" Struma.""] A transcription by OCR, so subject to inaccuracies. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk
**''The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914 -1918'' by C.T.Atkinson, originally published 1931 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-south-wales-borderers-1914-1918/ ''History of the South Wales Borderers 1914- 1918''] by C T Atkinson, originally published 1931. Naval & Military Press.</ref> which is in turn available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19XLg-ecJX ''The History of the South Wales Borderers''] located in World WarII/Military Books/Britain/Scroll to letter T. 7th and 8th Battalions, both in 22nd Division, after only a month in France went with the division to Macedonia in November 1915 where they saw out the rest of the war.
*[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".
 
*[https://archive.org/details/onfourfrontswith00spar ''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
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=489 "The Royal Marines in Serbia"] Chapter 30, page 409 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919''. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
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