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Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)

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:[http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/3953 "An Englishwoman's Experiences on a Journey to the Eastern Front"] by Constance Smith, an article dated 13.1.19. ''Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Newsletter/Journal'', probably March 1919. Link to a download to your computer, which you may need to locate in your downloads folder. She went to join the Scottish Women’s Hospital in Macedonia in January 1917. From the website ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk.
: ''Memories of a Doctor in War and Peace'' by Isabel Hutton 1960. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.547361 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. She was also the author of ''With a Woman's Unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol'' published 1928, [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/With_a_Woman_s_Unit_in_Serbia_Salonika_a.html?id=NHAZAAAAIAAJ Snippet Google Books]. She was with Scottish Women's Hospitals. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Emslie_Hutton Isabel Emslie Hutton] Wikipedia
:Biographical details of [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/king-olive-may-6962 Olive May King] (adb.anu.edu.au), an Australian, who was an ambulance driver who had provided her own ambulance with the Scottish Women's Hospitals Girton and Newnham Unit 1915-1916. In 1916 she joined the Serbian Army as a driver. Her account appears online on many pages with [https://archive.org/details/beautysorrowinti0000engl/page/525/mode/1up cataloge catalogue entry of pages] in ''The beauty and the sorrow : an intimate history of the First World War'' by Peter Englund 2011. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. King's letters were published as ''One woman at war : letters of Olive King 1915-1920'' edited and with an introduction by Hazel King published by Melbourne University Press, 1986. Available at Deakin University Library, Victoria Australia, [http://sarin.its.deakin.edu.au/record=b1226815~S1 catalogue entry with some details].
*[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/underthreeflagsw00livirich ''Under Three Flags; with the Red Cross in Belgium, France and Serbia''] by St. Clair Livingston and Ingeborg Steen-Hansen 1916 Archive.org
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