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:[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. Also available on [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101064259615?urlappend=%3Bseq=1 HathiTrust Digital Library]
*[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 Paul Fortier Jones, American journalist 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/stream/cihm_65037#page/n127/mode/2up "Serbia"], page 79, Part Three: ''A History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals'' by Eva Shaw McLaren 1919. Account continues in other Parts, see [https://archive.org/stream/cihm_65037#page/n21/mode/2up Contents]. Archive.org, (from a microfilm copy).
*[https://archive.org/details/underthreeflagsw00livirich ''Under Three Flags; with the Red Cross in Belgium, France and Serbia''] by St. Clair Livingston and Ingeborg Steen-Hansen 1916 Archive.org
*[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/armiesofmercyvas07unse/page/144/mode/2up "Serbia’s Agony. How America Helped to Save a Land Laid Waste"] by Her Excellency Madame Slavko Grouitch page 144 ''The Armies of Mercy, Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume VII'' 1920 Archive.org.
*[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/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
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