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*[http://markshep58.wix.com/801-mt-coy-asc 801 MT COY ASC] 801st Mechanical Transport Company of the Army Service Corps [British Army]
*[http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php Great War Forum] includes a category "Salonika & the Balkans"
*[http://www.salonikacampaignsociety.org.uk Salonika Campaign Society] The Society's Journal is ''The New Mosquito'', published from April 2000. An archived webpage shows the [https://web.archive.org/web/20151115190433/http://www.salonikacampaignsociety.org.uk/index.php/tnm contents of some Journals] to Issue 32, September 2015, and a [https://web.archive.org/web/20070723100613/http://www.salonika.freeserve.co.uk/The%20New%20Mosquito.htm second archived page] shows the contents of earlier issues to Issue 15.*IWM catalogue details of [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1506006316 ''The Mosquito : The Official Organ Of The Salonika Reunion Association''] 1927-1964, and [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1500090303 ''The Mosquito Index''] Also [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1500015925 "Salonika Memories : the Mosquito, 1915-1919"] Imperial War Museums. Note: the items themselves are not available online.This journal contains many personal accounts.*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0AM1b1XzPFUC&pg=PT261 "Bibliography: Reminiscences of the Salonika Campaign"] from ''The Gardeners of Salonika: The Macedonian Campaign 1915-1918'' by Alan Palmer, originally published 1965. Google Books:[https://web.archive.org/web/20070723100506/http://www.salonika.freeserve.co.uk/Select%20Bibliography.htm Select Bibliography]. Archived 2007 page Salonika Campaign Society
*[http://blog.cwgc.org/salonika/ Salonika: The Forgotten Front]. Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC).
*[http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/other_cemeteries_ext/salonika_military_cem.htm Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery] ww1cemeteries.com
*[http://elinepa.org/2006/11/30/the-indian-cemetery-of-salonica/?lang=en "The Indian Cemetery In Salonica"] by Helen Abadzi. For deaths 1916-1920. Website of the "Indo-Hellenic Society for Culture & Development", November 30th, 2006. This title is also available on [http://www.academia.edu/5120942/The_Indian_Cemetery_of_Thessaloniki_English_ academia.edu].
*[http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/Contributions/Gavra-Vlasidis-Cemeteries.pdf "Military Cemeteries Of The First World War In Macedonia Region: Routes Of Reading History In Search The Common Cultural Heritage"] by Eleni Gavra and Vlasis Vlasidis macedonian-heritage.gr. 1st Specialty International Conference on Monumental Cemeteries. Knowledge, Conservation, Restyling and Innovation, (Μodena, 3-5 May, 2006), Roma, 2007, <nowiki>ISBN 978 88 54801147-8</nowiki>, vol. 1, pp.179-189
*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/microsites/ww1/stories/captain-noel-drury Soldiers’ Stories: [Diary extracts<nowiki>]</nowiki> Captain Noel Drury of 6th Battalion The Royal Dublin Fusiliers] 1915-1916. National Army Museum.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080516031002/http://www.salonika.freeserve.co.uk/NurseInSalonika.htm "A Nurse in Salonika – the Diary of Edith Moor"] by Anthony Richards. October 1916 to November 1917. Moor was in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, posted to the 43rd General Hospital. Initially the vast majority of the patients she treated were suffering from malaria. Archived page, Salonika Campaign Society.
*[http://bishop.slq.qld.gov.au/view/action/singleViewer.do?dvs=1463009854647~133 Memoir of Jane McLennan, Australian Army Nursing Service]. Enlisted on 28 May 1917 for overseas service. Served No. 3 Unit, 60th General Hospital Salonika. In March 1918 she was invalided back to Australia with heart disease. Original diary with transcript. State Library of Queensland. From page 23 "The night staff had to take every precaution against mosquito bites and wore gloves, [[British_Army#Other_2|puttees]], hat and a net veil on duty but many of the sisters went down with the disease [malaria] in spite of these precautions". [http://astateofwar.org.au/queenslanders#jane-mclennan Jane McLennan: Time Line] “A State of War” State Library of Queensland.
*[http://www.borgognon.net/VEBdiary.html [1918 Balkans<nowiki>]</nowiki> "Diary of Lt Victor Edward Borgonon (1882-1966)"]
*[https://bmdoyleblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/a-field-ambulance-in-salonika-1916-17/ A Field Ambulance In Salonika, 1916-17] ''Health History @Huddersfield University''
*[http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/my-tommys-war-mules-and-malaria/ "My Tommy’s War: Mules and malaria"] by Kate Jarman 12 July 2013 The National Archives Blog. Walter John Cooke was a Driver within the 1st South Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.*[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213320 Photograph: A convoy of lorries from 689 Motor Transport Company (ASC) halted on the Seres Road c 1917] iwm.org.uk''
*[http://velikirat.nb.rs/en/about Serbian Great War Digital Library] National Library of Serbia. Includes images, maps, some books in English.
*Lost Bulgaria, photographs of Bulgarian history includes a category [http://www.lostbulgaria.com/?cat=210 All photos of the First World War (1914-1918)] lostbulgaria.com. Bulgarian website, but it is possible to select the English language option (or Google Chrome will translate automatically).
*[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
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284463 ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II''] by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Link to an Adobe pdf download. Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with a chapter on the Balkans.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/274726 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War''] by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Includes a chapter on Salonika. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Corps-Histories/library/A-History-of-the-Army-Ordnance-Services-Volume-Three/files/assets/basic-html/page5.html OCR Text version] [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Corps-Histories/library/A-History-of-the-Army-Ordnance-Services-Volume-Three/files/assets/basic-html/page252.html OCR Text version: Salonika]
*''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n121/mode/2up "The Dardanelles, Salonika and Constantinople 1915-1919"] page 103.
*''War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force'' [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V] by H A Jones 1935. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. Includes Macedonia. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi197edinuoft#page/776/mode/2up "Diary of a Dresser of the Serbian Unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospital"] by L E Fraser page 776 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 197 January-June 1915 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/atserbianfronti00steb ''At the Serbian Front in Macedonia''] by P E Stebbing 1917 Archive.org. The author was Transport Officer to a Unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals (The author had previously spent many years in the Indian Forest Service.)
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/547361 ''Memories Of A Doctor In War And Peace''] by Isabel Hutton 1960. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. She was also the author of ''With a Woman's Unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol'' published 1928. She was with Scottish Women's Hospitals. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Emslie_Hutton Isabel Emslie Hutton] Wikipedia
*[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/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/subalterninserbi00younrich ''A Subaltern in Serbia and some Letters from the Struma Valley''] by Captain A Donovan Young, Captain, Indian Army. Catalogued 1922. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/macedoniancampai00vill ''The Macedonian Campaign''] by Luigi Villari 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/talesofgeanint00laws ''Tales of Aegean Intrigue''] by J C Lawson 1921 Archive.org. The author was a Naval Intelligence Officer on Crete (Temporary Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve)
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/536872 ''Greek Memories''] by Compton Mackenzie 1939. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.This is the second edition published in 1939, with some content from the original 1932 edition deleted. It is the 3rd volume of a series of memoirs of the World War: v.1. ''Gallipoli Memories'', (see [[Gallipoli]]); v.2. ''Athenian Memories''; v.4. ''Aegean Memories'' The author served with British Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First World War. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Mackenzie Compton Mackenzie] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/reportsofamerica00amer ''Reports of the American Red Cross Commissions upon their activities in Macedonia, Thrace, Bulgaria, the Ægean Islands and Greece''] 1919 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/finalreportdepar00amerrich ''The American Red Cross Commission to Greece: Final report, Department of civilian relief, exclusive of the districts of the Aegean Islands and eastern Macedonia''] 1919
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