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Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)

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Historical books online
*[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]].The Battalion was part of the 60th Division, see second following item.**[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51387 ''The History of the Prince of Wales' Civil Service Rifles''] by several authors, including some named 1921. Gutenberg.org. Also known as 2/15th (County of London) Battalion (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles). The Battalion was part of the 179th Brigade , 60th Division in Salonika (from December 1916) and Palestine. [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2nd/2nd London) Division] (longlongtrail.co.uk)**''History of the 60th Division (2/2nd London Division)'' by Colonel P H Dalbiac, 1927 includes [https://archive.org/details/60thdivision/page/63/mode/2up Chapter 6, "Under Orders for the Balkans"], page 63. Archive.org
**[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]].
**''The Fifth in the Great War - A History of the 1st & 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, 1914-1918'' by Brigadier H. R. Sandilands 1938. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-Fifth-in-the-Great-War-A-History-of-the-1st-and-2nd-Northumberland-Fusiliers-1914-1918/files/assets/basic-html/page249.html "Chapter XVI. Second Battalion-25th October, 1915-26th June, 1918. "Macedonia, 1915-1918"-" Struma.""] A transcription by OCR, so subject to inaccuracies. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk
**''The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914 -1918'' by C.T.Atkinson, originally published 1931 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-south-wales-borderers-1914-1918/ ''History of the South Wales Borderers 1914- 1918''] by C T Atkinson, originally published 1931. Naval & Military Press.</ref> which is in turn available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19XLg-ecJX ''The History of the South Wales Borderers''] located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain/Scroll to letter T. 7th and 8th Battalions, both in 22nd Division, after only a month in France went with the division to Macedonia in November 1915 where they saw out the rest of the war.
**[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51387 ''The History of the Prince of Wales' Civil Service Rifles''] by several authors, including some named 1921. Gutenberg.org. The 2nd Battalion was part of the 179th Brigade , 60th Division in Salonika (from December 1916) and Palestine. [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2nd/2nd London) Division] (longlongtrail.co.uk)**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b742714?urlappend=%3Bseq=318%3Bownerid=9007199274796524-336 "Italy and Salonika"] page 293, Volume II ''The Die-hards in the Great War: a History of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) 1914-1919 , compiled from the records of the line special reserve, service, and territorial battalions'' by Everard Wyrall [1926] HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/diehardsvol2/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org version]
**[https://archive.org/details/trueworldwaristo0000unse/page/304/mode/2up "In Macedonia: The End of Bulgaria"] by N C Powell page 304 ''True World War I Stories: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War'', catalogued 2001. Originally published as ''Everyman at War'' 1930. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/endofbulgaria.htm Transcription] firstworldwar.com
*:Private Powell arrived Salonika January 1918, served with the 9th East Lancs.Regt. on Doiran sectors until February 1919.
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