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Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)

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*[http://markshep58.wix.com/801-mt-coy-asc 801 MT COY ASC] 801st Mechanical Transport Company of the Army Service Corps [British Army]
*[http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php Great War Forum] includes a category "Salonika & the Balkans"
*[http://www.salonikacampaignsociety.org.uk Salonika Campaign Society] The Society's Journal is ''The New Mosquito'', published from April 2000. An archived webpage shows the [https://web.archive.org/web/20151115190433/http://www.salonikacampaignsociety.org.uk/index.php/tnm contents of some Journals] to Issue 32, September 2015.*IWM catalogue details of [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1506006316 ''The Mosquito : The Official Organ Of The Salonika Reunion Association''] 1927-1964, and [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1500090303 ''The Mosquito Index''] Also [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1500015925 "Salonika Memories : the Mosquito, 1915-1919"] Imperial War Museums. Note: the items themselves are not available online.
*[http://blog.cwgc.org/salonika/ Salonika: The Forgotten Front]. Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC).
*[http://elinepa.org/2006/11/30/the-indian-cemetery-of-salonica/?lang=en "The Indian Cemetery In Salonica"] by Helen Abadzi. For deaths 1916-1920. Website of the "Indo-Hellenic Society for Culture & Development", November 30th, 2006. This title is also available on [http://www.academia.edu/5120942/The_Indian_Cemetery_of_Thessaloniki_English_ academia.edu].
*[http://bishop.slq.qld.gov.au/view/action/singleViewer.do?dvs=1463009854647~133 Memoir of Jane McLennan, Australian Army Nursing Service]. Enlisted on 28 May 1917 for overseas service. Served No. 3 Unit, 60th General Hospital Salonika. In March 1918 she was invalided back to Australia with heart disease. Original diary with transcript. State Library of Queensland. From page 23 "The night staff had to take every precaution against mosquito bites and wore gloves, [[British_Army#Other_2|puttees]], hat and a net veil on duty but many of the sisters went down with the disease [malaria] in spite of these precautions". [http://astateofwar.org.au/queenslanders#jane-mclennan Jane McLennan: Time Line] “A State of War” State Library of Queensland.
*[http://www.borgognon.net/VEBdiary.html [1918 Balkans<nowiki>]</nowiki> "Diary of Lt Victor Edward Borgonon (1882-1966)"]
*[https://bmdoyleblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/a-field-ambulance-in-salonika-1916-17/ A Field Ambulance In Salonika, 1916-17] ''Health History @Huddersfield University''
*[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213320 Photograph: A convoy of lorries from 689 Motor Transport Company (ASC) halted on the Seres Road c 1917] iwm.org.uk
*[http://velikirat.nb.rs/en/about Serbian Great War Digital Library] National Library of Serbia. Includes images, maps, some books in English.
*Lost Bulgaria, photographs of Bulgarian history includes a category [http://www.lostbulgaria.com/?cat=210 All photos of the First World War (1914-1918)] lostbulgaria.com. Bulgarian website, but it is possible to select the English language option (or Google Chrome will translate automatically).
:[http://www.vlib.us/medical/serbia.htm "With the First Red Cross Mission to Serbia"]. Extract from Chapter X , ''Surgeon's Journey'' by James Johnston Abraham, in charge of The First British Red Cross Serbian Mission in 1915. vlib.us
*[https://archive.org/details/storyofredcrossu00berriala ''The Story of a Red Cross Unit in Serbia''] by James Berry, F May Dickinson Berry, W Lyon Blease 1916 Archive.org. The Anglo-Serbian Hospital, or the Royal Free Hospital.
:[https://archive.org/details/luckthirteen00gorduoft ''The Luck of Thirteen : Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia''] by Mr and Mrs Jan Gordon 1916 Archive.org. Jan was acting as engineer to Dr Berry’s Serbian Mission from the Royal Free Hospital, and his wife Jo was a V A D. After six months they took a holiday, leaving with two knapsacks.
*[https://archive.org/details/flamingswordinse00stobrich ''The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere''] by Mrs St. Clair Stobart 1916 Archive.org The author organized and directed a hospital for the Serbian Relief Fund
:[https://archive.org/details/mydiaryinserbiaa00stanrich ''My diary in Serbia, April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915''] by Monica M Stanley, attached to the Stobart Field Hospital in Serbia. 1916 Archive.org
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