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Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)

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:[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
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/549567 ''Anti-malaria Work in Macedonia among British Troops''] by W G Willoughby 1918. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.549567 Archive.org version].
:[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/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://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.
:[https://archive.org/details/retreatfromserbi00aldriala ''The Retreat from Serbia through Montenegro and Albania''] by Olive M Aldridge 1916. The author was with the Serbian Relief Fund under Mrs Stobart from July 1915, until she reached London in December 1915. Archive.org
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20160219232801/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, now an archived web page. Also at [http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/greatretreat.htm firstworldwar.com].
:[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/stream/blackwoodsmagazi197edinuoft#page/776/mode/2up "Diary of a Dresser of the Serbian Unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospital"] by L E Fraser page 776 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 197 January-June 1915 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/atserbianfronti00steb ''At the Serbian Front in Macedonia''] by P E Stebbing 1917 Archive.org. The author was Transport Officer to a Unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals (The author had previously spent many years in the Indian Forest Service.)
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/547361 ''Memories Of A Doctor In War And Peace''] by Isabel Hutton 1960. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.547361 Archive.org version]. She was also the author of ''With a Woman's Unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol'' published 1928. She was with Scottish Women's Hospitals. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Emslie_Hutton Isabel Emslie Hutton] Wikipedia
*[https://archive.org/details/experiencesofwom00matt ''Experiences of a Woman Doctor in Serbia''] by Dr Caroline Matthews 1916 Archive.org. The author worked independently in Serbia in a Military Hospital as a Red Cross doctor. She subsequently became a POW and was suspected of being a spy. Later in her captivity in Hungary she was placed with a group of fellow prisoners from a Scottish Women’s Hospitals Unit.
*[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.
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