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Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)

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*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/microsites/ww1/stories/captain-noel-drury Soldiers’ Stories: [Diary extracts<nowiki>]</nowiki> Captain Noel Drury of 6th Battalion The Royal Dublin Fusiliers] 1915-1916. National Army Museum.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080516031002/http://www.salonika.freeserve.co.uk/NurseInSalonika.htm "A Nurse in Salonika – the Diary of Edith Moor"] by Anthony Richards. October 1916 to November 1917. Moor was in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, posted to the 43rd General Hospital. Initially the vast majority of the patients she treated were suffering from malaria. Archived page, Salonika Campaign Society.
*[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.vlib.us/medical/dark/dark.htm The WWI Military Memoirs of Captain Dark, MC.
Australian Doctor, Great War]. The very end of the account includes a short section on his time in Macedonia, in a General Hospital under canvas at the head of the Vadar Marshes. vlib.us, The World War I Document Archive/The Medical Front.
*[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''
*[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.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022540901.0x000002 ''Experiences in Serbia, 1914-15 ... Reprinted from "The Lancet", November 6, 1915'']. by James Thomas Jackman Morrison. 1915. British Library Digital file. He was with a British Hospital Unit with the Serbian Relief Fund.:[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
:[https://archive.org/details/lettersfromfield00dear ''Letters from a Field Hospita''l] by Mabel Dearmer 1915 Archive.org. The husband of author Mabel Dearmer was appointed as Chaplain to the British units in Serbia, so she volunteered as an orderly with the Stobart Serbian Unit. She died at Kragujevatz of typhoid fever July 1915.
:[http://www.edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/pdf_Serbian_refugees.pdf "The Great Retreat In Serbia In 1915"] by M. I. Tatham. (Scroll down). First published in ''Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War'' edited by C. B. Purdom 1930. Miss M I Tatham served (1915) with Stobart Field Hospital (Serbian Relief Unit), Kraguyevatz, Serbia. edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005891781 ''A Farmer in Serbia''] by Ellen Chivers Davies. 1916 Hathi Trust Digital Library, accessible to those in some areas such as North America. An account of the nursing (not agricultural) experiences of the 2nd British Farmers Unit [so called because of the funding], Serbian Relief Fund. The author became a prisoner.
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022541588.0x000002 ''Report by Sir Ralph Paget ... on the Retreat of Part of the British Hospital Units from Serbia, October-December, 1915''] with a [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022541588.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=16&z=-866.5062%2C0%2C4331.0123%2C3094 Map]. British Library Digital file.
*[https://archive.org/details/withserbiaintoex00jonerich ''With Serbia into Exile; an American's Adventures with the Army that Cannot Die''] by Fortier Jones 1916 Archive.org. The author was initially (most likely) with the Columbia University Relief Expedition, for the relief of non combatants. These men were recruited as drivers - each to have an automobile for carrying supplies together with an English-speaking Serb to act as an interpreter. He subsequently joined the Christitch Mission at Valjevo, run by Mlle Anna Christitch, of the London ''Daily Express''.
*[https://archive.org/details/strickenlandserb00aske ''The Stricken Land: Serbia as we saw it''] by Alice and Claude Askew 1916 Archive.org. In 1915, both Alice and Claude Askew, who were authors, travelled to Serbia as part of a relief effort with a British field hospital that would be attached to the Second Serbian Army. They were also Special Correspondents for the British newspaper ''Daily Express''. (Wikipedia)
*[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"] 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, Volume 205. 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/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/salonicasideshow00seli ''The Salonica Side-show''] by V J Seligman 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/subalterninserbi00younrich ''A Subaltern in Serbia and some Letters from the Struma Valley''] by Captain A Donovan Young, Captain, Indian Army. Catalogued 1922. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/macedoniancampai00vill ''The Macedonian Campaign''] by Luigi Villari 1922 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)
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/536872 ''Greek Memories''] by Compton Mackenzie 1939. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.This is the second edition published in 1939, with some content from the original 1932 edition deleted. It is the 3rd volume of a series of memoirs of the World War: v.1. ''Gallipoli Memories'', (see [[Gallipoli]]); v.2. ''Athenian Memories''; v.4. ''Aegean Memories'' 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.
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