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:[https://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesd01macpuoft#page/132/mode/2up "Typhus Fever"] page 133 ''History of the Great War: Medical Services: Diseases of the War Volume I'' Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/typhusfeverwithp1920stro ''Typhus Fever: with particular reference to the Serbian Epidemic''] by Richard P Strong, Director of the American Red Cross and International Sanitary Commissions to Serbia. 1920 Archive.org
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/549567 ''Anti-malaria Work in Macedonia among British Troops''] by W G Willoughby 1918. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.549567 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
:[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-10082-00010/1 ''Salonika Diary 1915-1918'']. (Harold Arthur) Thomas Fairbank was an Officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps. His unit was moved to Macedonia to serve in Struma valley, and he was appointed consulting surgeon to the British Salonika Force. From the Fairbank Papers, University of Cambridge Digital Library. Typed manuscript, photographs etc.
:[https://archive.org/details/fiftythousandmil00wall ''Fifty Thousand Miles on a Hospital Ship''] by “The Padre” [Charles Steel Wallis] 1917 Archive.org. The hospital ship that Padre Wallis joined in 1915 was most likely the 'Goorkha'.<ref>frev. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/topic/253987-norwegian-matron-on-indian-hospital-ship/?do=findComment&comment=2569706 Norwegian Matron on Indian Hospital Ship] ''Great War Forum'' 3 October 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.</ref> The ship arrived in Salonika from [https://archive.org/stream/fiftythousandmil00wall#page/268/mode/2up page 268] by which time the ship was a British Hospital Ship (previously Indian Hospital Ship).
*[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/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. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org], mirror from 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. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 Archive.org], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726/2015.274726.A-History#page/n265/mode/2up Chapter XII Salonika], page 236. [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. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.547361 Archive.org version], mirror from 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/underthreeflagsw00livirich ''Under Three Flags; with the Red Cross in Belgium, France and Serbia''] by St. Clair Livingston and Ingeborg Steen-Hansen 1916 Archive.org
*[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.
*Regimental histories
**[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]].
** ''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. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/A-History-of-The-Black-Watch-Royal-Highlanders-in-the-Great-War-1914-1918-Volume-III/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html Volume III transcribed edition] [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/A-History-of-The-Black-Watch-Royal-Highlanders-in-the-Great-War-1914-1918-Volume-III/files/assets/basic-html/page7.html Contents] lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. A transcription by OCR, so subject to inaccuracies.
*:[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/details/macedoniancampai00vill ''The Macedonian Campaign''] by Luigi Villari 1922 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b742756?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Seas of Adventures: the Story of the Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Aegean''] [1914-1918] by E. Keble Chatterton, [late Lieutenant-Commander RNVR] 1936 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also see [[Gallipoli]].
*[httphttps://wwwarchive.new.dli.ernet.inorg/handledetails/2015/527779 HardLying ''Hard Lying''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/HardLying Archive.org version]. Full title ''“Hard Lying”: Eastern Mediterranean, 1914-1919'' by Captain L B Weldon 1925. The author was a British Army Intelligence Officer , initially OC of a British Ship (HMS Anne previously Aenne Rickmers) carrying a French, later British seaplane squadron used for reconnaissance flights. Although the most of the book is about other regions, there seem to the occasional visits to Greek islands, e.g. Rhodes and Castellorizo, the latter then under French control.
*[http://www.gwpda.org/memoir/Hill/Hill.htm ''Go Spy The Land: Being the Adventures of I.K.8 of the British Secret Service''] by George A. Hill 1932. Chapters 4-9 cover his time in Salonika, working for Intelligence, and later for the RFC, where he dropped spies over enemy lines. gwpda.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)
*[https://www.scribd.com/document/197610668/MACKENZIE-COMPTON-First-Athenian-Memories ''First Athenian Memories''] by Compton Mackenzie 1931. scribd.com. 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).
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/536872 ''Greek Memories''] by Compton Mackenzie 1939. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278746 Archive.org version], another mirror from Digital Library of India. file]. 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'' ([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://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”.
:[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
:[https://archive.org/details/reliefworkineast00amerrich ''The American Red Cross Commission to Greece:Relief work in eastern Macedonia''] 1919
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/143207 ''Serbia To Kut''] by Joseph T Parfit 1917. Pdf download, Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143207 Archive.org version] - full , mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Serbia to Kut: an account of the War in the Bible Lands'' [Balkans, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia]. An overview of the conflict. The author, then or subsequently, was Canon of St George’s Jerusalem.
*''Les Archives de la Grande Guerre [et de l'histoire contemporaine]'' French language. In 17 volumes, which have been digitised on Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France in 13 digital files. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6582541w/f9.item Volume 17], the final volume, contains a Contents section which appears to cover all 17 Volumes, click on the icon for Table des matières. Then scroll down to "Front d'Orient" for a number of accounts and articles on the Balkans and the Dardanelles, where you can click through to the relevant articles (which may be in volumes other than Volume 17). For more details of this publication, see [[Western Front]].
*[https://archive.org/details/admiraltyvocabul00grearich ''Vocabularies: English, German, Magyar, Serbian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Greek, Turkish''] Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO. 1920 Archive.org
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