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:*[https://archive.org/details/motorcycle16lond_/page/n269/mode/1up "Despatch Riding including Salonika"] page [1]74 February 24th 1916.
:*[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle16lond_/motorcycle16lond#page/n313/mode/1up/ "With the Salonika Forces"] page 214 March 2nd 1916.
:[https://archive.org/details/65-re/page/n9/mode/2up ''65 R. E.. A Short Record of the Service of the 65th Field Company Royal Engineers''] by Alan Colquhoun Duff 1920 Archive.org. The Company also served at [[Gallipoli]], and in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Palestine]]. :[https://archive.org/details/107thfieldcoy-re/page/n3/mode/2up ''Collections and Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R.E.''] 1918 Archive.org, and a second volume :[https://archive.org/details/further-rec-107th-fc/page/n5/mode/2up ''Further Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R. E''] 1920 Archive.org. Elsewhere the editors are stated to be "Sapper J Robertson and former Lieutenant M J Rattray", of 107th Field Coy., Royal Engineers. The second of two volumes of history of this Field Company of the Royal Engineers during the First World War, the first volume being ''Collections and Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R.E.'', published in 1918.
:''The War Diary of 8 Field Survey Company R.E. British Salonika Force from 1 January 1917 to 10 April 1919''. Transcribed from a National Archives, Kew document. [https://www.defencesurveyors.org.uk/historical-papers Historical Papers: Defence Surveyors' Association] Scroll down. [https://fc061d25-33f8-4c65-840c-8ca5bf36650e.filesusr.com/ugd/b9208c_0fee415699a447ebbb9adae3a2339a08.pdf Direct pdf link].
:[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war Egypt, Salonika, East Africa, Italy and Northern Russia. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
====Artillery====
*[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/comingoutoftheline "Coming Out of the Line-A Night March with the Guns" ] by Captain Robert K M Simpson, Royal Field Artillery. ''Breadalbane Academy School Magazines'' of 1919 & 1920. See A transcription.<ref>Skipman. [https://www.greatwarforumArchive.org/topic/237206-coming-out-of-the-line-a-night-march-with-the-guns/ Coming Out of the Line-A Night March with the Guns] ''Great War Forum'' 10 March 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2020.</ref>
*[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/details/amateurgunnersgr0000thor/mode/2up ''Amateur Gunners : the Great War adventures, letters and observations of Alexander Douglas Thorburn''] edited by Ian Ronayne 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Revised, expanded edition of ''Amateur Gunners'' published 1933. [[Western Front]], Salonika, [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Palestine]].
 
====Intelligence====
*[https://archive.org/details/HardLying ''Hard Lying''] Archive.org. Full title ''“Hard Lying”: Eastern Mediterranean, 1914-1919'' by Captain L B Weldon 1925. The author was a British Army Intelligence Officer , initially OC of a British Ship (HMS Anne previously Aenne Rickmers) carrying a French, later British seaplane squadron used for reconnaissance flights. Although the most of the book is about other regions, there seem to the occasional visits to Greek islands, e.g. Rhodes and Castellorizo, the latter then under French control.
:''Greek Memories'' by Compton Mackenzie 1939. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278746 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available to read online on [https://www.scribd.com/doc/197623928/Mackenzie-Compton-Greek-Memories scribd.com]. This is the second edition published in 1939, with some content from the original 1932 edition deleted, due to the author's prosecution under the Official Secrets Act.
:These two volumes are the 2nd and 3rd of a series of memoirs of the World War: v.1. ''Gallipoli Memories'', (see [[Gallipoli]]); v.4. ''Aegean Memories''. Available to Search [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000401749 HathiTrust], but not viewable. ([https://spyinggame.me/2015/03/03/aegean-memories/ Review]) The author served with British Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First World War.
:[https://archive.org/details/mylifetimes0005mack/page/n5/mode/2up ''My Life and Times. Octave Five 1915-1923''] by Compton Mackenzie 1966. Archive.org Texts to Borrow.
:[https://archive.org/details/comptonmackenzie0000link/mode/2up ''Compton Mackenzie : A Life''] by Andro Linklater 1987 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. A Biography.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Mackenzie Compton Mackenzie] Wikipedia.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b42310?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Allied Secret Service in Greece''] by Sir Basil Thomson, Director of Intelligence 1919-1921. 2nd impression 1931 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Compton Makenzie, in ''Greek Memories'', states that Thomson’s title was a civil post connected with the Police which suggested a more intimate knowledge of Greek affairs than he possessed, and refers to “the untrustworthiness of his narrative”.
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3973360 KV 1/17 Imperial Overseas Intelligence 1915-1919: Eastern Mediterranean Special Intelligence Bureau]. Link to a free record download from the National Archives, Kew. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C3973358 KV 1/16-19] Includes KV 1/18 Cyprus and KV 1/19 Summary which may also contain related material.
 
==== British Army regimental histories and accounts====
*[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. An account of an officer near the Front.
*''History of the 60th Division (2/2nd London Division)'' by Colonel P H Dalbiac, 1927 includes [https://archive.org/details/60thdivision/page/63/mode/2up Chapter 6, "Under Orders for the Balkans"], page 63. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/royalfusiliersin00onei/page/n9 ''The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War''] by H C O'Neill 1922 Archive.org. Includes [https://archive.org/details/royalfusiliersin00onei/page/260 "Chapter XIV Salonika"] from page 261, in addition to the [[Western Front]], [[Gallipoli]], and [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]].
*[https://archive.org/details/histeastsurreyregimentvol2/page/n7/mode/2up ''History of the East Surrey Regiment Volume 2 1914-1917''] by Colonel H W Pearse and Brigadier-General H S Sloman 1923 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/histeastsurreyregimentvol3/page/n9/mode/2up ''History of the East Surrey Regiment Volume 3 1917-1919''] by Colonel H W Pearse and Brigadier-General H S Sloman 1924 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/royal-irish-rifles-great-war/page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the First Seven Battalions, the Royal Irish Rifles (now the Royal Ulster Rifles) in the Great War''] by Cyril Falls 1925 Archive.org. The Battalions served on the [[Western Front]], at Salonika and in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Palestine]].
*[https://archive.org/details/berkshireregtvol2/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's). Volume 2, 1914-1918''] by F Loraine Petre 1925. Includes Salonika. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/londonscottishgtwar/page/n11/mode/2up ''The London Scottish in the Great War''] edited by Lt.-Col. J H Lindsay 1925 Archive.org. Includes a chapter on Salonika [https://archive.org/details/londonscottishgtwar/page/241/mode/2up pages 242-260].
*[https://archive.org/details/the-devonshire-regiment-1914-1918/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Devonshire Regiment 1914-1918''] by C T Atkinson 1926 Archive.org. The various Battalions fought in Salonika, on the Western Front, in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine, Italy and North Russia, and were in India.
:[https://archive.org/details/livingwitness/page/n9/mode/2up ''A Living Witness. Letters of John Maximilian Hammond MB, BS, DSO 1914-1917''] 1925 Archive.org. Hammond was the regimental medical officer (RMO) for the 10th Devons (10th (Service) Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment) He died of wounds 15 March 1917.
* ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' (in three Volumes) Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. Vol III includes 10th Battalion in Salonika, [https://archive.org/details/black-watch-vol3/page/213/mode/2up page 213] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/stream/archibalddonmemo00sayliala#page/126/mode/2up Page 126, ''Archibald Don, a Memoir''] 1918. Archive.org. Archibald Don was a medical student who was commissioned as an officer of the 10th Battalion, Black Watch, which was sent to Salonika in November 1915. He died of malignant malaria September 1916.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b742714?urlappend=%3Bseq=318%3Bownerid=9007199274796524-336 "Italy and Salonika"] page 293, Volume II ''The Die-hards in the Great War: a History of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) 1914-1919 , compiled from the records of the line special reserve, service, and territorial battalions'' by Everard Wyrall [1926] HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/diehardsvol2/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org version]
*[https://archive.org/details/royalirishregimentvol2/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Campaigns and History of the Royal Irish Regiment Volume 2 1900-1922''] by Br. General Stannus Geoghegan 1927 Archive.org. Includes Macedonia.
*[https://archive.org/details/connaughtrangersvol3/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Connaught Rangers Volume 3, 5th and 6th Service Battalions 1914-1919''] by Lieut.-Colonel H F N Jourdain and Edward Fraser 1928 Archive.org. The Battalions served at Gallipoli, Salonika, Palestine and France.
:[https://archive.org/details/5thbattconnaughtrangers/page/n5/mode/2up ''Record of the 5th (Service) Battalion the Connaught Rangers from 19th August, 1914 to 17th January, 1916''] by Henry Francis Newdigate Jourdain (assumed author) 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/eastyorkshirereggtwar/page/n9/mode/2up ''The East Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War 1914-1918''] by Everard Wyrall 1928. Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100002346476.0x000002 ''The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the World War''] by Sir Frank Fox. [With plates and maps] 1928. British Library Digital. Includes a chapter on Salonika.
*[https://archive.org/details/historysuffolkregimentmurphy/page/n9/mode/2up ''The History of the Suffolk Regiment 1914-1927''] by Lieut.-Colonel C C R Murphy 1928 Archive.org. During the First World War the various Battalions served on the Western Front, at Gallipoli, in Egypt, in Macedonia (Salonika) and Palestine.
*[https://archive.org/details/historysurreyyeomanry/page/n13/mode/2up ''The History and War Records of the Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regt.) 1797-1928''] by E. D. Harrison-Ainsworth 1928. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/histkoylivol3/page/n9/mode/2up ''History of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Volume 3, in the Great War 1914-1918''] by Lt.-Col. Reginald C Bond 1929. Archive.org. Includes a chapter on Salonika, [https://archive.org/details/histkoylivol3/page/n175/mode/2up pages 841-851]
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/gloucestershireregwar/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Gloucestershire Regiment in the War 1914-1918. The Records of the 1st (28th), 2nd (61st), 3rd (Special Reserve) and 4th, 5th, and 6th (First-Line T.A.) Battalions''] by Everard Wyrall 1931 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/historydcli1914/page/n9/mode/2up ''The History of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1914-1919''] by Everard Wyrall 1932. Archive.org. Includes Salonika. (Previously [[32nd Regiment of Foot|32nd Reg.]])
*[https://archive.org/details/loyalnorthlancashirereg/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Volume 2 1914-1919''] by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1933. Archive.org. Includes Macedonia.
*''The Fifth in the Great War - A History of the 1st & 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, 1914-1918'' by Brigadier H. R. Sandilands 1938. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190414064417/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, archived.
*''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 Military Books-located by the Search/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://archive.org/details/trueworldwaristo0000unse/page/304/mode/2up "In Macedonia: The End of Bulgaria"] by N C Powell page 304 ''True World War I Stories: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War'', catalogued 2001. Originally published as ''Everyman at War'' 1930. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/endofbulgaria.htm Transcription] firstworldwar.com
:Private Powell arrived Salonika January 1918, served with the 9th East Lancs.Regt. on Doiran sectors until February 1919.
*[https://archive.org/details/muckydonia1917190000math/mode/2up ''‘Muckydonia’ 1917-1919, being the adventures of a one-time 'Pioneer' in Macedonia and Bulgaria during the First World War''] by William D Mather 1979 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He arrived in Salonika in February 1917, where he was posted to the 8th Ox & Bucks LI which was a Pioneer Battalion, which did 'the dirty work' of the R EsREs.
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