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Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)

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:[https://web.archive.org/web/20160219232801/http://www.edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/pdf_Serbian_refugees.pdf "The Great Retreat In Serbia In 1915"] by M. I. Tatham. (Scroll down). First published in ''Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War'' edited by C. B. Purdom 1930. Miss M I Tatham served (1915) with Stobart Field Hospital (Serbian Relief Unit), Kraguyevatz, Serbia. edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk, now an archived web page. Also at [http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/greatretreat.htm firstworldwar.com].
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005891781 ''A Farmer in Serbia''] by Ellen Chivers Davies. 1916 Hathi Trust Digital Library, accessible to those in some areas such as North America. 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. The author was initially (most likely) 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/strickenlandserb00aske ''The Stricken Land: Serbia as we saw it''] by Alice and Claude Askew 1916 Archive.org. In 1915, both Alice and Claude Askew, who were authors, travelled to Serbia as part of a relief effort with a British field hospital that would be attached to the Second Serbian Army. They were also Special Correspondents for the British newspaper ''Daily Express''. (Wikipedia)
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