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Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)

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*:[https://archive.org/stream/historyofamericaff01seym#page/340/mode/2up "In the Orient" [Balkans<nowiki>]</nowiki>], page 341, Volume I ''History of the American Field Service in France, “Friends of France", 1914-1917 told by its members'' and [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica03unse/page/182/mode/2up page 183, Volume III] both published 1920. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/uncensoredletter00vassuoft ''Uncensored Letters from the Dardanelles''] written to his English Wife by a French Medical Officer of Le Corps Expeditionnaire D’Orient [Joseph Marguerite Jean Vassal] 1916 Archive.org. Includes Serbia. Book No. 4 in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War''.
**[https://archive.org/details/war-surgery-hughes-banks/page/n9/mode/2up ''War Surgery from Firing-line to Base''] by Basil Hughes and H Stanley Banks 1919 Archive.org
*[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://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Corps-History-Vol-06.pdf ''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume VI: Gallipoli, Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine 1914-18''], edited by H.L. Pritchard, published 1952. nzsappers.org.nz. Note: Volume VI does not include information about Signals as "The history of their work is being produced by the Royal Corps of Signals themselves".<ref>michaeldr. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/251301-royal-engineers-soldier-abandoned-in-gallipoli/?do=findComment&comment=2538402 Royal Engineers soldier abandoned in Gallipoli] ''Great War Forum'' 29 June 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2018.</ref>
:"An Unofficial History of the Signal Service with the British Salonika Force 1915-1918" by Capt C C S White ''The Royal Engineers Journal''. nzsappers.org.nz
:[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1926-December.pdf Part 1] Scroll to pages 647-658 (the digital file commences page 537) Vol XL No 4 December 1926; and [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1927-March.pdf Part 2] Scroll to pages 97-108 Vol XLI No 1 March 1927. The latter also includes the Occupation of Constantinople, see [[Norperforce]]. :[https://archive.org/details/65-re/page/n9/mode/2up ''65 R. E.. A Short Record of the Service of the 65th Field Company Royal Engineers''] by Alan Colquhoun Duff 1920 Archive.org. The Company also served at [[Gallipoli]], and in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Palestine]].
:[https://archive.org/details/further-rec-107th-fc/page/n5/mode/2up ''Further Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R. E''] 1920 Archive.org. Elsewhere the editors are stated to be "Sapper J Robertson and former Lieutenant M J Rattray", of 107th Field Coy., Royal Engineers. The second of two volumes of history of this Field Company of the Royal Engineers during the First World War, the first volume being ''Collections and Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R.E.'', published in 1918.
:''The War Diary of 8 Field Survey Company R.E. British Salonika Force from 1 January 1917 to 10 April 1919''. Transcribed from a National Archives, Kew document. [https://www.defencesurveyors.org.uk/historical-papers Historical Papers: Defence Surveyors' Association] Scroll down. [https://fc061d25-33f8-4c65-840c-8ca5bf36650e.filesusr.com/ugd/b9208c_0fee415699a447ebbb9adae3a2339a08.pdf Direct pdf link].
*[https://archive.org/details/insalonicawithou00lakerich ''In Salonica With Our Army''] by Harold Lake [1917]. Archive.org. Also published as [https://archive.org/details/campaigninginba01lakegoog ''Campaigning in the Balkans''] by Lieutenant Harold Lake, New York 1918. Archive.org. The author was with the British Army, an officer in what appears to be an infantry regiment. It is stated elsewhere he was with the Durham Light Infantry.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XoHCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 Page 26] ''The Other Wars: The Experience and Memory of the First World War in the Middle East and Macedonia'' by Justin Fantauzzo. Sample pages Google Books.</ref>
*Regimental histories and accounts
**[https://archive.org/details/second-twentieth-london-reg/page/n9/mode/2up'' The Second Twentieth being the History of the 2/20th Bn., London Regiment''] by Captain W R Elliot [1920] Archive.org. The Battalion served on the [[Western Front]], at Salonika, in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt and Palestine]].
**[https://archive.org/details/royalfusiliersin00onei/page/n9 ''The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War''] by H C O'Neill 1922 Archive.org. Includes [https://archive.org/details/royalfusiliersin00onei/page/260 "Chapter XIV Salonika"] from page 261, in addition to the [[Western Front]], [[Gallipoli]], and [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]].
**[https://archive.org/details/royal-irish-rifles-great-war/page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the First Seven Battalions, the Royal Irish Rifles (now the Royal Ulster Rifles) in the Great War''] by Cyril Falls 1925 Archive.org. The Battalions served on the [[Western Front]], at Salonika and in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Palestine]].
** ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' (in three Volumes) Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. Vol III includes 10th Battalion in Salonika, [https://archive.org/details/black-watch-vol3/page/213/mode/2up page 213] Archive.org
*:[https://archive.org/stream/archibalddonmemo00sayliala#page/126/mode/2up Page 126, ''Archibald Don, a Memoir''] 1918. Archive.org. Archibald Don was a medical student who was commissioned as an officer of the 10th Battalion, Black Watch, which was sent to Salonika in November 1915. He died of malignant malaria September 1916.
*[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. Archive.org The start of the Salonika Campaign from 30 September 1915.
:Walshe was also the author of ''With the Serbs in Macedonia'', see further above. He was an officer with 708 Company M T, ASC, a Light Supply and Ammunition Column of Ford vans attached to the Serbian Army.
*Artillery**[https://archive.org/details/boywithguns00tayl/page/n151 "Our Serbian Expedition. A Sideshow of the War"] page 101 ''The Boy with the Guns'' by the late Lieut. George W Taylor, Royal Field Artillery, 1919. Archive.org. A book in the ''On Active Service'' series. He was with the 10th Division, October 1915 to c February 1916, when he arrived back in England.**"Coming Out of the Line-A Night March with the Guns" by Captain Robert K M Simpson, Royal Field Artillery. ''Breadalbane Academy School Magazines'' of 1919 & 1920. See transcription.<ref>Skipman. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/237206-coming-out-of-the-line-a-night-march-with-the-guns/ Coming Out of the Line-A Night March with the Guns] ''Great War Forum'' 10 March 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2020.</ref>**[https://archive.org/details/greywave00gibbrich/page/94 Salonica] pages 94-121 ''The Grey Wave'' by Major A. Hamilton Gibbs 1920. American title: [https://archive.org/details/gunfodderdiaryof00gibb/page/n9 ''Gun Fodder; the diary of four years of war''] 1919. Both Archive.org. He was an officer, Royal Field Artillery, 67 Artillery Brigade, part of 10 Division, arriving in 1915.<ref>[http://www.orientalvagabonds.com/2018/11/we-will-remember-them-all.html "We Will Remember Them All"] William Regan (68) Field Artillery Brigade. November 05, 2018. orientalvagabonds.com</ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Hamilton_Gibbs A. Hamilton Gibbs] (Wikipedia), novelist.**[https://archive.org/details/amateurgunnersgr0000thor/mode/2up ''Amateur Gunners : the Great War adventures, letters and observations of Alexander Douglas Thorburn''] edited by Ian Ronayne 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Revised, expanded edition of ''Amateur Gunners'' published 1933. [[Western Front]], Salonika, [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Palestine]].
*[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/songoftiadatha00ruttiala ''The Song of Tiadatha''] by Captain Owen Rutter (‘Klip-Klip’), first published 1919. The author was with the 7th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment and edited the ''Balkan News''. He formerly was in the North Borneo Civil Service. Archive.org
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