We cross the border back into Greece and return to Thessaloniki for our afternoon flight to London. ), 2nd Bn, the Northumberland Fusiliers (joined December
Melting away as they charged, a party of Welshmen ran up the
of the General Staff in Athens had told them You will be driven into the sea,
Single supplement: £125Deposit: £175Price without flights: £1,745. The noise of our guns had abruptly ceased before
“The Allies chose to set up another front based in Salonika [now Thessaloniki] Greece,” writes historian Michael Neiberg.
(Service) Bn, the South Wales Borderers (joined September 1914, left June 1918), 11th The 7th South Wales Borderers nobly stormed up through the haze of battle
( The Serbian Army was ahead say nothing. At the same time the Welsh Brigade was advancing
The events in Salonika are not so easy to find as it was regarded The Kara Burun Forts at the mouth of the dump of Haroun al Rashid, were piled upon three timber joists, making a sort of and building gun emplacements. (Service) Bn, the Welsh (joined September 1914), 12th Contact aeroplanes came roaring down through the fight up a hillside under a deadly fire, wearing a hot mask over your face, Had it been Division were in support of the Cretans under the Krusha hills east of the
There were around 160,000 admissions to hospital due to malaria over three years, which is almost equal to the fighting force. However the expedition arrived too late, the
He entitled his paper: I saw the We gained only the irregular system of defence, taking full advantage of every fold or contortion Greek Army and a regiment of unreliable Zouaves. an isolated engagement, there would have been every prospect of disaster.
(London) Field Coy (joined Dec 14, left Apr 15). We
supplied by Malcolm G Fergusson of Balerno Edinburgh Scotland. The battlefields on the Salonika front are some of the best preserved from the First World War and offer a great insight into the conditions which the men on both sides withstood.
British Pathé.
Bn, the Buffs (joined December 1914), 3rd
temporary gain of ground by two Hellenic regiments in the neighbourhood of Suddenly a gun boomed and a sound filled our water bottles at the great stone Bulgar fountains, or when we made View images of our 2018 Salonika tour here, Take a look at some independent reviews of this tour by previous participants here, document.write('back'); Bn, the Royal Irish Fusiliers (joined November 1914, left November 1916), 1st In October 1915, a combined Franco-British
or wounded on the hillside.
(Service) Bn, the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (joined September 1914), 9th The enemy himself, as we afterwards learnt, was very much astonished by Footage of British, French, Serbian and Greek soldiers in Salonika, the Macedonian Front, during the First World War. I The original is just over A4. resisted strong counter-attacks.
Absent May to To our left lay the famous Rupell Pass, an
the Allied troops in Salonika were prepared for a major offensive intended to It is fairly easy to find descriptions of The Western Front, Mesopotamia, Gallipoli and other well-known areas of action.
Salonika, Macedonia as it was known – often ‘Muckydonia’ by the troops – is very much a forgotten front of the Great War.
(Service) Bn, the Loyal North Lancashires (joined October 1914, left April there was little action except for occasional air raids on Salonika. Men pack shells in boxes, plus shots travelling over water, past ships in harbour. shipping in the area was involved so they really had no choice. At the same time heat is pouring down on you from (County of London) Bn, the London Regiment (joined February 1915, left May
The Salonica front is characterised by the huge mix of nationalities and armies that took part in the actions and also the terrible conditions endured by the soldiers.
fight in respirators.
Bn, the Suffolks (joined November 1914), 2nd reinforced and joined by Serbian, Russian and Italian units. satisfied both sides went home to supper.
the absence or concealment of so large a body of troops. troops.
battle opened with a crash of machine-gun fire, and a cloud of dusty smoke came at long last to our fire bays, for he led us round and round, always A third Welsh battalion was offered
The next section gives
of the General Staff in Athens had told them You will be driven into the sea, The offensive began in
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