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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
*''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 . "The first of 2 volumes recording the unit's services in Macedonia/Salonica".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/2019120211370820191203025151/https://www.turnerdonovan.com/booksPDS.aspx?stockNo=57465&mv=2&sn=1 Tom Turner Donovan Military Books]</ref>
:''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
==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==
*[http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/my-tommys-war-mules-and-malaria/ "My Tommy’s War: Mules and malaria"] by Kate Jarman 12 July 2013 The National Archives Blog. Walter John Cooke was a Driver within the 1st South Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170210185534/https://www.imxa.gr/bsfiles/50/7.Wills-web.pdf "The Salonica Campaign of the First World War from an Archaeologist’s Perspective: Alan J.B. Wace’s ''Greece Untrodden'' (1964)"] by David Wills ''Balkan Studies'' 50 (2015) pages 139-157. Alan J.B. Wace worked clandestinely in Athens for British Intelligence. From page 141 there is a section titled “British perceptions of the Salonica Front” imxa.gr, now an archived page.
*[http://www.levantineheritage.com/testi42.htm Memoir of Charles Blyth Holton] Scroll down for his WW1 memories. Born near Smyrna Turkey, he joined the British Army in the UK and was posted to Salonika, where he was sent to work in Athens, on port control duties. He then returned to Salonika working as an intelligence officer. [http://www.levantineheritage.com/salonica.htm Images of Salonica] Both links levantineheritage.com
*[http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/id/eprint/72 ''Home away from the home front: the British in the Balkans during the Great War''] by Rachel Richardson 2014 PhD thesis, Birkbeck, University of London. A social history.
*[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1015.5175&rep=rep1&type=pdf "Dr Hirszfeld’s War: Tropical Medicine and the Invention of Sero-Anthropology on the Macedonian Front"] by Jacob Mikanowski. citeseerx.ist.psu.edu. 2011 advance draft of an article published in ''Social History of Medicine, Volume 25, Issue 1'', 1 February 2012, pages 103–121. Malaria and other diseases.
*[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://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A74924?display=list Balkans WWI] Six maps. Digital Archive @ McMaster University Library. Includes " Salonika: Map of Hospital Locations"
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-234551419 1918 Map of Serbia showing the daily progress of the Allied and Serbian armies northwards], as they liberated the country from occupying Bulgarian, Austrian and German forces, from 15 September to 21 November 1918. [Imprimerie du Ministère de la Guerre de la Marine], 1918 nla.gov.au
*[http://www.levantineheritage.com/salonicamap.htm Salonica Front Map showing localities in ''War Flying in Macedonia''] Map taken from ''War flying in Macedonia'' by Haupt Heydemarck [Captain Georg Wilhelm] Heydemarck, translated by Claud W. Sykes, c 1935. (Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001617758 and in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/war-flying-in-macedonia/ ''War flying in Macedonia''] by Captain Georg Wilhelm Heydemarck, translated by Claud W. Sykes. Naval & Military Press</ref>.) (Translation of ''Feldflieger über Mazedonien'' 1933) levantineheritage.com. There is also an additional map, together with some illustrations. (First page of an article [https://www.crossandcockade.com/uploads/HeydemarckSaunders.pdf "Hauptmann Heydemarck & Captain Saunders"] by Mike Kelsey. ''Cross & Cockade International Winter 2016'' 47.243. (Hauptmann=Captain))
*There are also maps in some books in the following section.
===Historical books online===
*''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n121/mode/2up "The Dardanelles, Salonika and Constantinople 1915-1919"] page 103.
*''War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force'' [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V] by H A Jones 1935. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. Includes Macedonia. Archive.org
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102644345 ''Over the Balkans and South Russia, being the history of no. 47 Squadron, Royal Air Force''] by H.A. Jones 1923. HathiTrust Digital Library, available to those in areas such as North America. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170204072938/https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1924/1924%20-%200022.PDF Contents details]. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001895421 . Also reprinted in 1987.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027827678 ''The War and the Balkans''] by Noel Buxton MP and Charles Roden Buxton 1915 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027947120 ''Russia, the Balkans and the Dardanelles''] by Granville Fortescue, Special Correspondent of ''The Daily Telegraph'' 1915 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/serbiaspartinwar01pric ''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.
*[https://archive.org/details/throughserbianca00gord ''Through the Serbian campaign : the Great Retreat of the Serbian Army''] by Gordon Gordon-Smith 1916 Archive.org. During the Word War, the author, a journalist from 1887, was war correspondent of the ''Daily Graphic'' of London, of the ''Manchester Guardian'' and of the ''New York Tribune''.
:[https://archive.org/details/fromserbiatojugo00gordrich ''From Serbia to Jugoslavia: Serbia's Victories, Reverses and Final Triumph, 1914-1918''] by Gordon Gordon-Smith 1920 Archive.org. *[https://archive.org/details/bysealandsomenav00kennrich/page/82 "Serbia-Smederevo-San Giovanni di Medua"] Chapter II page 82 ''By Sea and Land : Some Naval Doings'' by E Hilton Young, MP, Lieutenant Commander RNVR 1920 Archive.org . Book is catalogued under the surname Kennet - he became Lord Kennet from 1935. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Young,_1st_Baron_Kennet Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet] Wikipedia. He was appointed in 1915 to the British Naval Mission on the Danube, under Rear-Admiral Troubridge, and was part of the Great Retreat of the Serbian Army and civilians to the Adriatic coast port of San Giovanni di Medua or Shengjin in northwestern Albania, where the Naval Mission was in charge of the evacuation. [http://serbianna.com/analysis/archives/3427 "Succor for Serbia: The British Naval Mission to Serbia in 1915"] serbianna.com
*[https://archive.org/details/guardiansofgateh00laffuoft ''The Guardians of the Gate : Historical Lectures on the Serbs''] by the Rev R. G. D Laffan 1918. Archive.org. Based on a series of lectures on [then] modern Serbian history given to the scattered companies of the [British] ASC (MT) attached to the Serbian Army.
*[https://archive.org/details/warineasterneuro00reeduoft/page/n3 "Part I Salonika, and Part II Serbia"] ''The War in Eastern Europe'' by John Reed 1916. Archive.org. Travel in April-October 1915. The author was an American journalist.
:[https://archive.org/details/lovelysergeant00burg ''The Lovely Sergeant''] by Alan Burgess 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Flora Sandes
*[https://archive.org/details/salonicacityofgh00mazo/page/286 "The First World War"] Chapter 15, page 186 ''Salonica, City of Ghosts'' by Mark Mazower. 2005. [https://archive.org/details/salonicacityofgh00mazo/page/458 Endnotes] page 459. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/sixhourshift00mcferich ''A Six-Hour Shift''] by William McFee 1920 Archive.org. The author was an engineer on a refrigerated cargo ship (supplying frozen meat to the Armee d’Orient), which appears to have been moored off Salonika (for an extended period?). 1920. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McFee William McFee] Wikipedia which states "During World War I he served in the Royal Navy as engineer in various transport ships". He wrote many books.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.396481/page/n329 "A Consulate in War-Time"] page 306 ''A Consul In The East'' by A. C. Wratislaw 1924. Archive.org. The author was the British Consul in Salonika 1915-1919.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62121/page/n91 "Salonika Chapter III"] page 67 ''Last Changes Last Chances'' by Henry W. Nevinson 1928 Archive.org. Elsewhere, the author was stated to be "the leading war correspondent of the Edwardian era." He appears to have been in Salonika c November 1915- March 1916. Includes a short description of Captain Malcolm Burr (elsewhere stated to be in charge of No 1 Civil Labour Battalion, who wrote ''Slouch Hat'' by Malcolm Burr 1935, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000544165, and for those with University access, on HathiTrust Digital Library). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Nevinson Henry Nevinson] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/withfrenchinfran00daviiala ''With the French in France and Salonika''] by Richard Harding Davis New York 1916 Archive.org
*From ''The Motor Cycle, Volume 16'' Archive.org
**[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.**[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51387 ''The History of the Prince of Wales' Civil Service Rifles''] by several authors, including some named 1921. Gutenberg.org. The 2nd Battalion was part of the 179th Brigade , 60th Division in Salonika (from December 1916) and Palestine. [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2nd/2nd London) Division] (longlongtrail.co.uk)*[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(from December 1916, page 63), 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/romanceoflastcru00vivi/page/50 "The Balkans"] Chapter III, page 50 ''The Romance of the Last Crusade : with Allenby to Jerusalem'' by Major Vivian Gilbert 1923. Archive.org. Gilbert was in the Machine Guns Corps (Infantry), in the 180th Brigade, [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2nd/2nd London) Division] (longlongtrail.co.uk) which was in Salonica for 5 months from late December 1916, until they left to join Allenby in Palestine.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi205edinuoft#page/432/mode/2up "Obstruction’s Gentle Art"] by Douglas Walshe pages 433-449 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' Volume 205, January-June 1919. Archive.org The start of the Salonika Campaign from 30 September 1915.
:[https://archive.org/details/withserbsinmaced00walsrich ''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.
*[https://archive.org/details/boywithguns00tayl/page/n151 "Our Serbian Expedition. A Sideshow of the War"] page 101 ''The Boy with the Guns'' by the late Lieut. George W Taylor, Royal Field Artillery, 1919. Archive.org. A book in the ''On Active Service'' series. He was with the 10th Division, October 1915 to c February 1916, when he arrived back in England.
*[https://archive.org/details/greywave00gibbrich/page/94 Salonica] pages 94-121 ''The Grey Wave'' by Major A. Hamilton Gibbs 1920. American title: [https://archive.org/details/gunfodderdiaryof00gibb/page/n9 ''Gun Fodder; the diary of four years of war''] 1919. Both Archive.org. He was an officer, Royal Field Artillery, 67 Artillery Brigade, part of 10 Division, arriving in 1915.<ref>[http://www.orientalvagabonds.com/2018/11/we-will-remember-them-all.html "We Will Remember Them All"] William Regan (68) Field Artillery Brigade. November 05, 2018. orientalvagabonds.com</ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Hamilton_Gibbs A. Hamilton Gibbs] (Wikipedia), novelist.
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi201edinuoft#page/490/mode/2up "The End of a Long Pause"] by H R W page 491 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' Volume 201 January-June 1917. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/macedonianmusing00seli ''Macedonian Musings''] by V J [Vincent Julian] Seligman 1918 Archive.org. The author was an officer in the ASC, the Requisitioning or Purchasing Officer for the Xth Infantry Brigade (page 51).
*[https://archive.org/details/admiraltyvocabul00grearich ''Vocabularies: English, German, Magyar, Serbian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Greek, Turkish''] Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO. 1920 Archive.org
*Fiction
**[https://archive.org/details/deserter00davirich/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Deserter''] by Richard Harding Davis 1917 Archive.org. A short story, stated in the Introduction to be based on fact. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis Richard Harding Davis] Wikipedia.
** ''The Leonora Trilogy'' by Hilary Green. Romantic novels. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
***[https://archive.org/details/daughtersofwar0000gree ''Daughters of War''] Book One. 2011
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