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* Turkish language Official Histories [https://www.msb.gov.tr/ArsivAskeriTarih/icerik/birinci-dunya-harbi-serisi Birinci Dünya Harbi Serisi / World War I Series] from Ministry of National Defence, Republic of Turkey. Includes maps. Item 14: ''Birinci Dünya Harbi, Avrupa Cepheleri, Makedonya Cephesi C.7 Ks.3''. Using [https://translate.google.com.au/#view=home&op=translate&sl=tr&tl=en Google Translate] ''First World War, European Fronts, Macedonian Front C.7 Ks.3''. [https://www.msb.gov.tr/Content/Upload/Docs/askeritariharsiv/110-birinci_dunya_harbi_avrupa_cepheleri_makedonya_cephesi.pdf Direct pdf link]. There is also item 15 ''Birinci Dünya Harbi, Türk Hava Harekatı C.9'' ''Air Operations'', and item 16 ''Birinci Dünya Harbinde Türk Harbi, Deniz Harekâtı C.8'' ''Naval Operations''
*Medical
:**[http://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesg04macp#page/n3/mode/2up ''History of the Great War: Medical Services: General History, Volume IV''] by G W Macpherson 1924. Includes Salonika. Archive.org*:Also in this series: ''Medical Services: Diseases of the War'' [https://archive.org/details/medicalservicesd01macpuoft Volume I], Includes Malaria. Archive.org.:**[https://archive.org/details/memorandaonsomem00greauoft ''Memoranda on some medical diseases in the Mediterranean war area, with some sanitary notes''] HMSO 1916. Archive.org:**[https://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesd01macpuoft#page/132/mode/2up "Typhus Fever"] page 133 ''History of the Great War: Medical Services: Diseases of the War Volume I'' Archive.org*:[https://archive.org/details/typhusfeverwithp1920stro ''Typhus Fever: with particular reference to the Serbian Epidemic''] by Richard P Strong, Director of the American Red Cross and International Sanitary Commissions to Serbia. 1920 Archive.org: ** ''Anti-malaria Work in Macedonia among British Troops'' by W G Willoughby 1918. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.549567 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.:**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-10082-00010/1 ''Salonika Diary 1915-1918'']. (Harold Arthur) Thomas Fairbank was an Officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps. His unit was moved to Macedonia to serve in Struma valley, and he was appointed consulting surgeon to the British Salonika Force. From the Fairbank Papers, University of Cambridge Digital Library. Typed manuscript, photographs etc.:**[https://archive.org/details/fiftythousandmil00wall ''Fifty Thousand Miles on a Hospital Ship''] by “The Padre” [Charles Steel Wallis] 1917 Archive.org. The hospital ship that Padre Wallis joined in 1915 was most likely the 'Goorkha'.<ref>frev. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/253987-norwegian-matron-on-indian-hospital-ship/?do=findComment&comment=2569706 Norwegian Matron on Indian Hospital Ship] ''Great War Forum'' 3 October 2017. Retrieved 1 October 2020.</ref> The ship arrived in Salonika from [https://archive.org/stream/fiftythousandmil00wall#page/268/mode/2up page 268] by which time the ship was a British Hospital Ship (previously Indian Hospital Ship).:**[https://archive.org/details/convoycallchrist00cana/mode/2up ''The Convoy Call, Christmas Number 1916'']. Regimental Journal, No 5 Canadian General Hospital, published at Salonica. Includes a history of the Unit in Salonica from 1 January 1916, [https://archive.org/details/convoycallchrist00cana/page/8/mode/2up page 8]. [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06884 Additional issues]: Volume 1, No. 3 (October 26 1916) and Volume 1, No. 4 (November 11 1916). canadiana.ca**[https://archive.org/details/01120175R.nlm.nih.gov/page/n155/mode/2up "Chapter XII", page 134] ''Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance'' by Robert Whitney Imbrie 1918 Archive.org. The author was a volunteer with the American Ambulance, in France and, from October 1916 until April 1917, the Balkans, (Macedonia, Albania) where he was attached to the French “Army of the Orient” L’Armee Francaise d’Orient (French Expeditionary Force). The author was, or became, part of the American Field Service. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Whitney_Imbrie Robert Whitney Imbrie] Wikipedia He was later American Vice Consul in Teheran, and was murdered there in 1924.*:Some extracts from this book are included, along with accounts from other members of the group of American drivers in *:[https://archive.org/stream/historyofamericaff01seym#page/340/mode/2up "In the Orient" [Balkans<nowiki>]</nowiki>], page 341, Volume I ''History of the American Field Service in France, “Friends of France", 1914-1917 told by its members'' and [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica03unse/page/182/mode/2up page 183, Volume III] both published 1920. Archive.org**[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
*[https://archive.org/details/nationatbaywhata00farniala ''A Nation at Bay: What an American woman saw and did in suffering Serbia''] by Ruth S Farnam 1918 Archive.org. She initially worked at a hospital run by Madame Grouitch, an American married to a Serbian diplomat. Subsequently she joined a group connected with Prince and Princess Alexis where she was in charge of medical stores for hospitals in the area. Later she raised funds in England and America, and visited the American unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals at Ostrove.
*[https://archive.org/details/ameliapeabodytil00tile ''Amelia Peabody Tileston and her canteens for the Serbs''] by Mary Wilder Tileston 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/01120175R.nlm.nih.gov ''Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance''] by Robert Whitney Imbrie 1918 Archive.org. The author was a volunteer with the American Ambulance, in France and the Balkans, (Macedonia, Albania) where he was attached to the French “Army of the Orient” L’Armee Francaise d’Orient (French Expeditionary Force). The author was, or became, part of the American Field Service. Some extracts from this book are included in
:[https://archive.org/stream/historyofamericaff01seym#page/340/mode/2up "In the Orient" [Balkans<nowiki>]</nowiki>], page 341 ''History of the American Field Service in France, “Friends of France", 1914-1917, Volume I''. 1920. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/englishwomanserg00sanduoft ''An English woman-sergeant in the Serbian Army''] by Flora Sandes 1916 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/englishwomansergeant_1406_librivox LibriVox audio recording] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/HeAutobiographyOfAWomanSoldierABriefRecordOfAdventureWithThe ''The Autobiography of a Woman Soldier: A Brief Record of Adventure with the Serbian Army 1916-1919''] by Flora Sandes c 1927 Archive.org
*[http://www.gwpda.org/memoir/Hill/Hill.htm ''Go Spy The Land: Being the Adventures of I.K.8 of the British Secret Service''] by George A. Hill 1932. Chapters 4-9 cover his time in Salonika, working for Intelligence, and later for the RFC, where he dropped spies over enemy lines. gwpda.org
*[https://archive.org/details/talesofgeanint00laws ''Tales of Aegean Intrigue''] by J C Lawson 1921 Archive.org. The author was a Naval Intelligence Officer on Crete (Temporary Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve)
*[https://www.scribd.com/document/197610668/MACKENZIE-COMPTON-First-Athenian-Memories ''First Athenian Memories''] by Compton Mackenzie 1931. scribd.com. Scroll past some pages in Greek. This digital file consists of the first 193 pages of the book, which are then repeated, followed by the remainder of the book (total 402 pages). For those with suitable University access, also available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000447291 HathiTrust]
:''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'' . For those with suitable University access, available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000401749 HathiTrust] ([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://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.
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