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Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)

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Naval
====Naval====
*[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
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b742756?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Seas of Adventures: the Story of the Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Aegean''] [1914-1918] by E. Keble Chatterton, [late Lieutenant-Commander RNVR] 1936 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/seasofadventures/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org version]. Also see [[Gallipoli]].
*[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 HathiTrust Digital Library.
:Other chapters in this book contain information about troops who garrisoned Aegean islands [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=323 Chapter 22 page 259] and [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=512 Chapter 35 page 430]
:[https://archive.org/details/sea-soldiers/page/n15/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[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.
*''Yarns of the Seven Seas'' by Commander F G Cooper (Frederick George), RNR 1927 contains one chapter in respect of Salonika, [https://archive.org/details/yarnssevenseas/page/120/mode/2up "Memories of Salonika"] page 120. Archive.org
 
====In the Air====
*''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
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