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:[https://archive.org/details/withourserbianal00page ''With our Serbian Allies''] by Lady Paget 1915 Archive.org. Report of Lady Paget’s Hospital, Serbian Relief Fund at Skopje c June 1915.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ThJbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA456 "Letter from Skopje Dec 18, 1915"] by George B Logan, an American volunteer at Lady Paget’s Hospital, then in enemy hands. Pages 456-457 ''The Princeton Alumni Weekly, February 23, 1916''. Google Books
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005891781 ''A Farmer in Serbia''] by Ellen Chivers Davies. 1916 Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library, accessible to those in some areas such as North America. Google Books files, also limited in area, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kQLHAAAAMAAJ A] and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=h0jmPA7UhbIC B]. 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. Paul Fortier Jones, American journalist was initially 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/first-athenian-memories/mode/2up ''First Athenian Memories''] by Compton Mackenzie 1931. Archive.org. Scroll past some pages in Greek. This digital file consists of the first 193 pages of the book, which are then repeated, followed by the remainder of the book (total 402 pages).
:''Greek Memories'' by Compton Mackenzie 1939. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278746 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available to read online on [https://www.scribd.com/doc/197623928/Mackenzie-Compton-Greek-Memories scribd.com]. This is the second edition published in 1939, with some content from the original 1932 edition deleted, due to the author's prosecution under the Official Secrets Act.
:These two volumes are the 2nd and 3rd of a series of memoirs of the World War: v.1. ''Gallipoli Memories'', (see [[Gallipoli]]); v.4. ''Aegean Memories''. Available to Search [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000401749 HathiTrust], but not viewable. ([https://spyinggame.me/2015/03/03/aegean-memories/ Review]) The author served with British Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First World War. :[https://archive.org/details/comptonmackenzie0000link/mode/2up ''Compton Mackenzie : A Life''] by Andro Linklater 1987 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. A Biography.:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Mackenzie Compton Mackenzie] Wikipedia.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b42310?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Allied Secret Service in Greece''] by Sir Basil Thomson, Director of Intelligence 1919-1921. 2nd impression 1931 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Compton Makenzie, in ''Greek Memories'', states that Thomson’s title was a civil post connected with the Police which suggested a more intimate knowledge of Greek affairs than he possessed, and refers to “the untrustworthiness of his narrative”.
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3973360 KV 1/17 Imperial Overseas Intelligence 1915-1919: Eastern Mediterranean Special Intelligence Bureau]. Link to a free record download from the National Archives, Kew. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C3973358 KV 1/16-19] Includes KV 1/18 Cyprus and KV 1/19 Summary which may also contain related material.
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